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If you're like me – policy dork that takes too long to X – you couldn't escape the discussion of a new book Abundance. Written by Derek Thompson of the Atlantic and Ezra Cline of the New York Times (co-founder of VOX), Abundance It's one of those policy books with the big idea that everyone has to have an opinion, whether they read it or not. in AbundanceThompson and Klein's big idea is that America's politics and life over the past 50 years have been distorted by “irrelevant ideology” that artificially cut down the supply of critical goods, such as…
As of March 21, there have been many lawsuits challenging illegal activities by the Trump administration, according to legal news site Just Security. It has a lot to track.However, the two issues raised by some of these lawsuits stand out as Trump's most blatant unconstitutional violations and therefore of particular attention. One is whether Trump can simply cancel federal spending mandated by Congressional actions, known as “water storage.” Future Supreme Court Justice William Lanequist wrote in a 1969 Department of Justice memo:Another issue is birthright citizenship. The Constitution absolutely makes it clear that people born in the United States and…
This story appeared in log off, a A daily newsletter that will help you stay informed about the Trump administration without taking over your life in political news. Subscribe here.Welcome to logoff: Today, I focus on strong private institutions towards Donald Trump's demands. And the law firm shows us another way.What's the latest? Donald Trump has regained an executive order attacking Weiss (one of the nation's largest law firms) after agreeing to do free legal work worth $40 million on causes that the Trump administration supports. Trump's orders attempted to terminate the federal contract as his former partner was working…
Late in Hulu’s new series Good American Family comes a moment of irony that’s become all too familiar in true crime docudramas. The fictionalized Natalia Grace Barnett — at this point in the story a teen, being played by the 27-year-old Imogen Faith Reid — glowingly reads supportive comments from random internet strangers. “I feel so bad I doubted you, Natalia,” one comment reads, “But I guess that’s what the media wanted.” Ah, yes: the ancient narrative that the media made a complicated situation worse, being proffered by a piece of media that’s currently making it worse.Good American Family dramatizes…
Please hold off the Nobel Peace Prize for a little while. President Donald Trump took office with the promise to quickly end two wars in Gaza and Ukraine. He has taken a fundamentally different approach to both conflicts with Joe Biden, and in some cases, he has resulted. What he hasn't done is the end of the war. In fact, this week, solutions to both conflicts seemed farther than ever before. Gaza's fragile ceasefire, which took effect shortly before Trump took office, was crushed after Israel launched airstrikes that killed more than 400 people, according to Gaza's health ministry. Hamas…
Elon Musk has opinions on how a lot of the world’s countries should be run. He has weighed in on elections in Germany on behalf of a far-right party, sparred with the government of his native South Africa, and called for the removal of the president of Ukraine, not to mention the two-month siege he has waged against America’s federal bureaucracy. But one country tends to get a pass from the world’s richest man. He is, in his own words, “kind of pro-China.” The self-proclaimed “free-speech absolutist” has not applied that position to China’s draconian censorship regime, and Musk has…
In the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the media was not covering precisely in glory. To quote itself from the early February 2020 work, the US was already confirmed when the virus had already spread in China for over a month. Last week or so, new cases of the 2019-NCOV coronavirus have skyrocketed. So the news article scolded us for worrying about it. “Don't worry about the coronavirus, worry about the flu,” BuzzFeed insisted. The flu “poses a bigger and greater risk,” the Washington Post said. “Why should we fear something in this country that doesn't kill people…
Disney's new live action snow white, He was plagued by the controversy after the controversy, but must have been cursed at birth by the evil fairy (whoa, wait, the wrong fairy tale).It's something to be confused for the studio. The original animated film was a huge success when it was first released in 1937, when it invented not only Disney Princess movies, but also Disney feature animated films, and all subsequent copy genres, to a greater or lesser extent. Some of the ratios it innovated are still fundamental to what animated films should look like. snow white I did it…
If you have the voice, you may want to avoid schedules for your next surgery on Friday.The most comprehensive analysis of what happens to patients undergoing surgery on Friday and Monday was published this month Jama More than 12 US and Canadian researchers become clear. On average, those who suffered short-term, medium-term, and long-term complications on average than those who went under the knife after the weekend, are those who on average undergo all sorts of procedures.The study is based in Ontario and included more than 450,000 patients who underwent one of the 25 most common surgeries between 2007 and…
The conservative philosopher GK Chesterton is known for a parable about two lawmakers who encounter a fence. One, brash and overeager, announces that he can’t see the point of the fence so it should be removed. The other, who Chesterton labels the “more intelligent type of reformer,” scolds his companion, warning him that they should only remove the fence once they know why it was put there.The point is that, before anything is changed, decision-makers should at least know why the thing that they are changing exists, lest they discover its true purpose after its removal ends in disaster.Never has…