Donald Trump Has a Family Policy... Stop Laughing.
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Donald Trump Has a Family Policy. Stop Laughing.
THE ANIMATING BELIEFS OF THIS ADMINISTRATION range from dangerously wrong to head-spinningly crazy. Tariffs are in the first tranche, along with the myth that NATO has been ripping off the United States for decades, that immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans, and that “
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Joining BILL KRISTOL on The Bulwark on Sunday, it’s NYU law professor RYAN GOODMAN to talk about Trump and the courts. What happens when he defies them?
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Happy Saturday! The end of spring break season is here, but pollen has made a strong entrance where we were in beautiful Northern Virginia, spending our spring break working, seeing family and friends. Let’s hope pollen season goes as quickly as spring break did. D.C. was so hard hit that some stories were selling “loosies” of Claritin.
GET YOUR TICKETS! At the end of May, we’re coming to Chicago and Nashville. I will see you there (and I know where the nearest White Castles are, so find me after the show!)
Speaking of tickets… I hope another deep run is coming from my Saint Louis Blues. Perhaps I should start saving for Stanley Cup tickets? Let’s Go Blues!
How Restaurants lost their personality… Phil Edwards takes us back in time.
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Kudos on the Cathy Young article. She often gets a lot of grief from readers here. This article by her is right on the mark.
The protestations by the Trumpist right against empathy fall into the exact same bucket as nearly all their protestations.
Antisemitism? Cancel culture? "Lawfare"? Empathy?
Turns out all these are things are terrific and to be enthusiastically promoted...just so long as the perpetrators are the right sort of people.
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