Author: Jim

Our Society Is Losing Its Anchors

To make sense of a decaying America, Thomas L. Friedman talks to a trusted friend about the mangrove tree.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/opinion/society-decay-america.html?smid=em-share

The First Amendment Is Out of Control

Big Tech is increasingly safe from government regulation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/opinion/supreme-court-netchoice-free-speech.html?smid=em-share

How the Democrats Should Replace Biden

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/25/opinion/thepoint/how-biden-should-withdraw?smid=url-share

The Blue-Collar Democrat Who Wants to Fix the Party’s Other Big Problem

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez flipped a rural red district to get to Congress. Now she wants to help her party do more of the same.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/magazine/marie-gluesenkamp-perez.html?pvid=cn4V29maz7-wAx4BfWqo-vFH&smid=em-share

The life secrets of those who flailed early but succeeded by old age

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/successs-late-bloomers-motivation/678798/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods mark the decisive rejection of an economic orthodoxy that dominated American policy making for nearly half a century.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/tariffs-free-trade-dead/678417/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Capturing reality is harder than it seems.

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/06/how-to-keep-watch/678554/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social