The End of Men – Echo Chamber 2016

********** How to Navigate the Era of Trump December 17, 2024
******** Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems October 23, 2024
********* NYTmes.com: I Don’t Want to Live in a Monoculture, and Neither Do You October 20, 2024
************* NYTimes.com: America Is Sleepwalking Into an Economic Storm October 17, 2024
**************** NYTimes.com: A Conservative Futurist and a Supply-Side Liberal Walk Into a Podcast … May 23, 2024
********* Freedom for the Wolves April 22, 2024
***** NYTimes: The Line Between Good and Evil Cuts Through Evangelical America April 21, 2024
[*** The Washington Post] One poll question summarizes eight years of Donald Trump April 20, 2024
*** NYTimes.com: How New Wars Have Brought Back Old American Divisions April 20, 2024
*** We’ve Been Thinking About America’s Trust Collapse All Wrong April 18, 2024
**** [The Washington Post] Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S. April 17, 2024
********** ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza April 17, 2024
***** NYTimes.com: Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Wear a MAGA Hat. I’m Not Fooled. April 15, 2024
**** [The Washington Post] One poll question summarizes eight years of Donald Trump April 15, 2024
**** [The Washington Post] Rural Americans are way more likely to die young. Why? Rj April 15, 2024
******* The Coalition of the Malevolent April 15, 2024
***** Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls April 14, 2024
**** Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility enshittification April 14, 2024
****** NYTimes.com: 2024, Meet 1892, Your Doppelgänger rj April 13, 2024
**** NYTimes.com: Israel: Cease-Fire, Get Hostages, Leave Gaza, Rethink Everything April 12, 2024
***** NYTimes.com: This Is What You Get When Fear Mixes With Money April 12, 2024
******* NYTimes.com: The Great Hypocrisy of the Pro-Life Movement April 11, 2024
******* Do We Really Want a Food Cartel? April 11, 2024
*** [The Washington Post] What we saw on the ground in Ukraine Post columnists David Ignatius and Jim Geraghty just returned from Ukraine. They detail the mood on the ground, how much U.S. aid actually matters and whether the war seems winnable April 7, 2024
******** An Utterly Misleading Book About Rural America April 4, 2024
*********** An Utterly Misleading Book About Rural America April 4, 2024
**** History Will Judge the Complicit April 4, 2024
************ NYTimes.com: Trump’s Backers Are Determined Not to Blow It This Time Around April 3, 2024
**** There’s Valuable Speech on Social Media, Even for Kids April 3, 2024
*** NYTimes.com: What the TikTok Bill Is Really About, According to a Leading Republican April 2, 2024
*** What Would Society Look Like if Extreme Wealth Were Impossible? April 1, 2024
****** End the Phone-Based Childhood Now April 1, 2024
**** What Happens When Kids Don’t See Their Peers for Months April 1, 2024
**** Mr. Haidt’s canon March 28, 2024
*********** NYTimes.com: First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones about Jonathan Haidt books March 28, 2024
NYTimes: Is Threads the Good Place? March 28, 2024
**** NYTimes.com: Netanyahu Is Making Israel Radioactive March 26, 2024
***** NYTimes.com: How German Atheists Made America Great Again March 26, 2024
******* NYTimes.com: What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself? March 26, 2024
**** [The Washington Post] How disinformation fuels violence — and makes our politics worse March 26, 2024
America’s Climate Boomtowns Are Waiting March 24, 2024
****** [The Washington Post] How to beat the backlash that threatens the liberal revolution March 22, 2024
***** Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point March 21, 2024
*** THE NEW PURITANS March 17, 2024
*** NYTimes: Yes, the Internet Is Broken, but What Does a Fix Look Like? March 15, 2024
**** NYTimes: Harvard, M.I.T. and Systemic Antisemitism March 15, 2024
**** End the Phone-Based Childhood Now March 13, 2024
***** Can Ukraine Win This War? March 10, 2024
**** Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out March 10, 2024
**** There Is a Secret Hamiltonian in the White House March 10, 2024
**** NYTimes.com: The Roots of Trump Nostalgia March 10, 2024
**** Can Biden Still Win? How the Anti-Trump Coalition Crumbled March 10, 2024
****** How Oct. 7 is forcing Jews to reckon with Israel March 9, 2024
American Fiction (film) March 9, 2024
****** NYTimes.com: This Prophetic Academic Now Foresees the West’s Defeat March 9, 2024
*** NYTimes.com: How to Fix the Crisis of Trust in Higher Education March 8, 2024
****** The Supreme Court Once Again Reveals the Fraud of Originalism March 7, 2024
******* Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power March 7, 2024
**** The Lifeblood of the AI Boom March 7, 2024
******* NYTimes.com: If They Can’t Make a Federal Case Out of Trump … March 6, 2024
***** How to Tackle Truth Decay March 5, 2024
*** American Special Ops Forces Are Everywhere March 5, 2024
******* NYTimes.com: Israel Is Falling Into an Abyss March 4, 2024
********* NYTimes.com: The Red-Blue Divide Goes Well Beyond Biden and Trump February 28, 2024
**** The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy February 28, 2024
***** Amazon’s Big Secret February 28, 2024
****** NYTimes.com: What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly? February 27, 2024
**** NYTimes.com: China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball February 27, 2024
************ NYTimes: The Mystery of White Rural Rage February 27, 2024
******* NYTimes.com: Why People Fail to Notice Horrors Around Them February 26, 2024
**** Texas’s Social-Media Law Is Dangerous. Striking It Down Could Be Worse. February 24, 2024
**** Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? February 24, 2024
***** NYTimes.com: What the News and the Pews Have in Common RJ February 23, 2024
******* NYTimes.com: The Political Failure of Bidenomics February 22, 2024
********* NYTimes: We Were Friends for Years. Trump Tore Us Apart. Rj February 22, 2024
** NYTimes.com: Trump’s G.O.P. Is a Confederacy of Fakers February 21, 2024
***** [The Washington Post] Local media is struggling. Government subsidies would make it worse. February 21, 2024
*** NYTimes.com: The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned February 21, 2024
*** SLACKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Why employees love the software, and bosses don’t February 21, 2024
******* How Trump pushed Silicon Valley off the rails February 20, 2024
*** NYTimes.com: The Cure for What Ails Our Democracy February 16, 2024
**** [The Washington Post] Three crises that give Biden a chance to prove the doubters wrong February 14, 2024
**** The Two Clashing Meanings of ‘Free Speech’ February 12, 2024
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians February 12, 2024
From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities February 12, 2024
*********** Vision Con The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3 February 12, 2024
******** From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities February 12, 2024
******** Reality Is Just a Game Now February 12, 2024
******** [The Washington Post] Mental lapses by Biden and Trump spark questions about memory and aging February 10, 2024
******* NYTimes.com: Can America Survive a Party of Saboteurs? February 9, 2024
******* NYTimes.com: Trump Came for Their Party but Took Over Their Souls February 9, 2024
*** NYTimes: Why MAGA Loves Russia and Hates Ukraine February 9, 2024
*** NYTimes: Still Baffled by Trump’s Appeal? Listen to This. February 9, 2024
***** HOW AMERICA GOT MEAN February 8, 2024
**** NYTimes.com: A Big Strategic Realignment in the Middle East May Be Coming February 7, 2024
**** NYTimes.com: The G.O.P. Bumper Sticker: Trump First. Putin Second. America Third. February 7, 2024
****** The GOP’s True Priority February 6, 2024
******** NYTimes: Immigrants Make America Stronger and Richer February 6, 2024
************ Why Technology Favors Tyranny February 5, 2024
*** [The Washington Post] Rigor? No. Merit? You must be joking. Elite? Oh, so much elite. February 2, 2024
*********** Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid January 31, 2024
******** The Rise of Technoauthoritarianism January 30, 2024
****** Is Congress Really Going to Abandon Ukraine Now? January 28, 2024
*** Ukraine Is Losing Eastern European Allies January 28, 2024
*** Why the GOP Extremists Oppose Ukraine January 28, 2024
** A Counterintuitive Effect of Global Warming January 27, 2024
** The Real Reason South Koreans Aren’t Having Babies January 27, 2024
**** NYTimes.com: A Titanic Geopolitical Struggle Is Underway January 26, 2024
**** NYTimes: Never Trumpers Never Had a Chance January 26, 2024
***** NYTimes: ‘The Strongest Democratic Party That Any of Us Have Ever Seen’ January 26, 2024
**** NYTimes.com: The Deification of Donald Trump Poses Some Interesting Questions January 24, 2024
****** NYTimes.com: We Are Normalizing Trump. Again. January 24, 2024
**** One Huge Contradiction Is Undoing Our Best Climate Efforts The math isn’t adding up. By Zoë Schlanger January 22, 2024
**** Prepare for a ‘Gray Swan’ Climate January 22, 2024
******* NYTimes: Overturning ‘Chevron’ Can Help Rebalance the Constitutional Order January 22, 2024
****** Science is revealing why American politics are so intensely polarized January 21, 2024
****** NYTimes.com: Bill Beard Was a Good Man. Then He Committed a Terrible Crime. January 20, 2024
***** NYTimes: Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts January 19, 2024
**** The Last Days of the Barcode January 19, 2024
****** ChatGPT’s FarmVille Moment January 17, 2024
***** THE WORLD IS FALLING APART. BLAME THE FLUKES. January 16, 2024
******* NYTimes.com: A ‘National and Global Maelstrom’ Is Pulling Us Under January 11, 2024
*** NYTimes: Why Iowa Turned So Red When Nearby States Went Blue January 9, 2024
**** The Unseen Faces of Jan. 6 and Why Trump Poses a “Uniquely Dangerous Threat” | Amanpour and Company January 6, 2024
*** The Year We Embraced Our Destruction January 6, 2024
****** The truth about the ethnic cleansing in Gaza – by UnHerd.com January 5, 2024
***** The world should fear 2024 – by UnHerd.com January 5, 2024
*** Why Parents Struggle So Much in the World’s Richest Country January 5, 2024
******** NYTimes.com: The Case for Disqualifying Trump Is Strong January 4, 2024
*** What Makes Hamas Worse Than the Nazis January 4, 2024
** NYTimes.com: Hamas and the Memory of the Holocaust January 4, 2024
** NYTimes.com: Harvard Couldn’t Save Both Claudine Gay and Itself January 4, 2024
**** NYTimes: How a Proxy Fight Over Campus Politics Brought Down Harvard’s President January 4, 2024
****** What Hamas Wants – The Atlantic January 2, 2024
***** The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans Living Paycheck to Paycheck December 27, 2023
**** How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class December 26, 2023
**** The Real Reason for Marriage Polarization December 24, 2023
**** The End of Men December 24, 2023
***** Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore December 24, 2023
****** THE 9.9 PERCENT IS THE NEW AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY December 24, 2023
*** Images of a New American Aristocracy December 24, 2023
**** The Masthead Discusses a “New American Aristocracy” December 24, 2023
****** NYTimes.com: It’s Time for the U.S. to Give Israel Some Tough Love December 23, 2023
****** The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy December 17, 2023
*** The New Puritans December 15, 2023
****** The Dark Psychology of Social Networks December 15, 2023
******** NYTimes.com: To Support Ukraine, Persuade the Elephant December 15, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: 48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Here’s How to Get Them Help That Works. December 13, 2023
****** What Does the Working Class Really Want? December 13, 2023
**** ‘We Only Need Some Metal Things’ December 13, 2023
******** NYTimes: What the University Presidents Got Right and Wrong About Antisemitic Speech December 10, 2023
*** The Left Can’t Afford to Go Mad December 9, 2023
***** NYTimes: News Publishers Are Fighting Big Tech Over Peanuts. They Could Be Owed Billions. Rj December 8, 2023
*** The Danger Ahead December 8, 2023
****** NYTimes.com: Why Fundamentalists Love Trump December 8, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: How Britain Put One of the World’s Best Health Care Systems on Life Support December 7, 2023
***** NYTimes: A Lot Has Happened in A.I. Let’s Catch Up. December 5, 2023
**** NYTimes: Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit December 3, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: This Is the 9/11 Lesson That Israel Needs to Learn December 2, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Welcome to Our New ‘Bespoke Realities’ December 2, 2023
****** NYTimes.com: A Few of the Ideas About How to Fix Human Behavior Rest on Some Pretty Shaky Science rj December 1, 2023
**** [The Washington Post] A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending. November 30, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: Understanding the True Nature of the Hamas-Israel War November 30, 2023
****** NYTimes: Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back. November 27, 2023
**** Friends of Attention | Friends of Attention November 27, 2023
****** Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History November 26, 2023
** NYTimes.com: Americans Under 30 Don’t Trust Religion — or Anything Else November 26, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: A Powerful Tool for Fighting Corruption Is Going Extinct rj November 26, 2023
****** The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy – The Atlantic November 25, 2023
******** NYTimes.com: As A.I.-Controlled Killer Drones Become Reality, Nations Debate Limits November 22, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: Why I Am a Liberal November 21, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: The Startling Evidence on Learning Loss Is In November 20, 2023
******** NYTimes: What Happens When the Super Rich Are This Selfish? (It Isn’t Pretty.) Rj November 20, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: Are Democrats Whistling Past the Graveyard? November 18, 2023
****** NYTimes.com: Are Democrats Whistling Past the Graveyard? November 18, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: Meet the Champions of Nuance and Empathy We Need November 17, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Universities Are Failing at Inclusion November 17, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: The Liberal Agenda of the 1960s Has Reached a Fork in the Road November 15, 2023
***** Hiding in Plain Sight: The Sources of MAGA Madness and Congressional Kakistocracy November 8, 2023
******** NYTimes.com: ‘The Embodiment of White Christian Nationalism in a Tailored Suit’ November 8, 2023
******** NYTimes.com: Get to Know the Influential Conservative Intellectuals Who Help Explain G.O.P. Extremism rj November 4, 2023
****** NYTimes: The Laws of Campus Culture War November 3, 2023
***** How the Enlightenment Ends October 31, 2023
**** Google’s New Search Tool Could Eat the Internet Alive October 31, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: Joe Biden Knows What He’s Doing October 31, 2023
****** NYTimes: The Chief Ideologist of the Silicon Valley Elite Has Some Strange Ideas October 27, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: The Essential Skills for Being Human October 21, 2023
******** NYTimes: Thomas L. Friedman on Israel’s ‘Morally Impossible Situation’ October 21, 2023
******** NYTimes.com: I Don’t Have to Post About My Outrage. Neither Do You. October 20, 2023
***** NYTimes: Beyond ‘Deaths of Despair’ rj October 20, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: The Moral Questions at the Heart of the Gaza War October 15, 2023
******** NYTimes: This Is How the Republican Party Got Southernized October 14, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: The Massacre in Israel and the Need for a Decent Left October 12, 2023
****** There Are No Rules Atlantic Ann Applebaum October 10, 2023
********* [The Washington Post] The depressing relationship between your job and your odds of drug overdose. Rj October 9, 2023
***** A Radical Idea for Fixing Polarization October 9, 2023
**** Matt Gaetz Is Half Right October 9, 2023
************ [The Washington Post] The rebirth of local news depends on all of us. Rj October 7, 2023
***** [The Washington Post] Hakeem Jeffries: A bipartisan coalition is the way forward for the House October 7, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: Without a College Degree, Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter October 5, 2023
******* NYTimes: Trump Is Excited About These Three Things October 5, 2023
***** NYTimes: How Gerontocracy Explains the Matt Gaetz Clown Show. Rj October 4, 2023
******* NYTimes: Why MAGA Wants to Betray Ukraine rj October 3, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: My Fellow Republicans: It’s Time to Grow Up October 3, 2023
******** [The Washington Post] How the diploma divide came to dominate American politics. Rj October 2, 2023
********* NYTimes: Why Can’t We Stop Unauthorized Immigration? Because It Works. October 1, 2023
***** NYTimes: ‘This Is Going to Be the Most Important Election Since 1860’ September 27, 2023
****** NYTimes.com: Can We Put a Price on Climate Damages? September 21, 2023
********** NYTimes.com: ‘A Perfect Storm for the Ambitious, Extreme Ideologue’ rj September 20, 2023
***** [The Washington Post] Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco September 20, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: The Republican Party Has Devolved Into a Racket September 19, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Superstar Cities in the Age of Zoom rj September 16, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Can Samantha Power Win the Battle for Ukraine’s Future? rj September 13, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: A Hidden Reason Cities Fall Apart rj September 13, 2023
********* Trump exploited a broken press. Here’s how to fix it. A conversation with media critic Jay Rosen. Rj September 11, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: People Are More Generous Than You May Think rj September 2, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: For $200, a Person Can Fuel the Decline of Our Major Parties August 31, 2023
******** NYTimes.com: Reviving America’s Fading Cities Isn’t Impossible rj August 31, 2023
******* The connections between decline of local news and growing political division rj August 30, 2023
****** [The Washington Post] The country has come apart. Rural America has a cure. Rj August 29, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: Can Liberalism Save Itself? August 28, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: Can Shrinking Be Good for Japan? A Marxist Best Seller Makes the Case. August 25, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: Trump Voters Can See Right Through DeSantis August 25, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: America Is Losing Religious Faith rj August 24, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: The Revealing Case of a Kansas Judge and a Search Warrant rj August 24, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Why Does Everyone Feel So Insecure All the Time? rj August 20, 2023
******** NYTimes.com: What if You Knew What You Were Missing on Social Media? Bluesky rj August 20, 2023
***** NYTimes: Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Local News Site Out of Business. Rj August 15, 2023
********* Here’s the inside story of how Congress failed to rein in Big Tech. [The Washington Post] rj August 15, 2023
******** NYTimes.com: Sweden Is Not Staying Neutral in Russia’s Information War rj August 12, 2023
****** [The Washington Post] The country has come apart. Rural America has a cure. Rj August 12, 2023
******* What the Best Places in America Have in Common August 7, 2023
**** The average doctor in the U.S. makes $350,000 a year. Why? [The Washington Post] August 7, 2023
******** NYTimes.com: What if We’re the Bad Guys Here? rj August 3, 2023
************ NYTimes.com: How Martin Wolf Understands This Global Economic Moment August 2, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: How Evangelical Christians Went From Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump rj July 29, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: The 2023 SCOTUS Awards July 28, 2023
****** NYTimes: Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia. Rj July 22, 2023
********** NYTimes.com: A Climate Hawk’s Issues With Electric Vehicles July 21, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: This Green and Expensive Land July 21, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: A Look Back at Our Future War With China July 21, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: Algorithms Are Making Kids Desperately Unhappy July 21, 2023
**** NYTimes: Building a Legal Wall Around Donald Trump July 21, 2023
********** NYTimes.com: Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth July 19, 2023
**** [The Washington Post] Progressive gloom ignores a marvelous historical economic measure July 19, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World July 18, 2023
**** NYTimes: America Can’t Build a Green Economy Without China. Rj July 17, 2023
******* NYTimes: Watch Out for the Fake Tom Cruise. Rj July 15, 2023
********* NYTimes.com: Nonprofit Buys 22 Newspapers in Maine RJ July 11, 2023
**** [The Washington Post] Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness. Rj July 10, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Look at What John Roberts and His Court Have Wrought Over 18 Years July 9, 2023
*********** NYTimes.com: Who Truly Threatens the Church? rj July 9, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: The Supreme Court’s Disorienting Elevation of Religion rj July 8, 2023
****** NYTimes.com: America Is Living on Borrowed Money July 8, 2023
****** Ill With Want – by L. M. Sacasas – The Convivial Society July 6, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence rj July 1, 2023
********* NYTimes.com: What’s Really Going On in Russia? July 1, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Prigozhin’s Mutiny Against Putin’s Reign of Lies June 29, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: Why Biden Isn’t Getting the Credit He Deserves June 29, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: This Is Why Trump Lies Like There’s No Tomorrow rj June 28, 2023
***** [The Washington Post] Alexei Navalny: This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like. Rj June 24, 2023
******** NYTimes.com: Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It? rj June 21, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: To Jail or Not to Jail June 17, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: If Democrats Win Back the House, They Will Have John Roberts to Thank rj June 14, 2023
******* NYTimes: It’s Not a Good Sign When People Who Don’t Pay for News Have So Little to Choose From. Rj June 13, 2023
************* NYTimes.com: America Has a Chance to Make Farming More Climate Friendly rj June 12, 2023
************** NYTimes.com: Silicon Valley Confronts the Idea That the ‘Singularity’ Is Here rj June 12, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Oklahoma Breaches the Wall Between Church and State June 11, 2023
**** How Much Have Record Corporate Profits Contributed to Recent Inflation? June 8, 2023
*** Escalated police stops of Black men are linguistically and psychologically distinct in their earliest moments | PNAS RJ June 7, 2023
***** [The Washington Post] The greatest threat to democracy isn’t what Republicans or Democrats think. Rj June 5, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: Let’s Smash the College Admissions Process rj June 2, 2023
****** The one best way is a trap. Rj June 1, 2023
**** Confronting the Technological Society. Rj June 1, 2023
***** [The Washington Post] AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ on par with nukes, tech leaders say. Rj May 31, 2023
********* NYTimes.com: A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn rj May 31, 2023
** NYTimes.com: China’s Young People Can’t Find Jobs. Xi Jinping Says to ‘Eat Bitterness.’ rj May 31, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: Companies Push Prices Higher, Protecting Profits but Adding to Inflation rj May 30, 2023
*** NYTimes: Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Human Mind May 28, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Start-Ups Bring Silicon Valley Ethos to a Lumbering Military-Industrial Complex May 24, 2023
****** NYTimes.com: The Way Out of the Debt Crisis Could Lead Back Through the Civil War May 24, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: Is the Surge to the Left Among Young Voters a Trump Blip or the Real Deal? rj May 24, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills RJ May 22, 2023
****** [The Washington Post] The debate over whether AI will destroy us is dividing Silicon Valley. Rj May 21, 2023
**** [The Washington Post] And the president most to blame for the national debt problem is … rj May 18, 2023
**** How Much Have Record Corporate Profits Contributed to Recent Inflation? RJ May 16, 2023
***** Isabella Weber on a New Way to Think About Inflation | Odd Lots Podcast RJ May 16, 2023
***** What has been driving inflation? Economists’ thinking may have changed rj May 16, 2023
**** [The Washington Post] Want to know why America is losing its edge? Look around campus. rj May 16, 2023
**** [The Washington Post] Why students are not enrolling in higher education RJ May 16, 2023
*** As enrollment plummets, academia gets schooled about where it went wrong rj May 16, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: Why Laws Meant to Create Jobs Can Be So Destructive for Our Cities rj May 16, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving, Too. rj May 15, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: Wonking Out: Attack of the Pharma Phantoms May 13, 2023
***** Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It rj May 12, 2023
**** [The Washington Post] Google is changing the way we search with AI. It could upend the web. May 10, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: When Their Idea of Liberty Is Your Idea of Death May 10, 2023
**** [The Washington Post] He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon. May 7, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Web Content by and for the Masses rj May 5, 2023
****** NYTimes.com: We’re Watching the End of a Digital Media Age. It All Started With Jezebel. May 3, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: Why Trump Won’t Let Go of His Dream of Domination May 3, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: The Curious Conservative Case Against Defending Ukraine May 3, 2023
********** NYTimes.com: Lina Khan: We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How. rj May 3, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: How Scalia Law School Became a Key Friend of the Court rj May 1, 2023
**** NYTimes: Requiem for the Newsroom. Rj April 29, 2023
**** NYTimes: Fox News Gambled, but Tucker Can Still Take Down the House. Rj April 29, 2023
****** NYTimes: Why Dead Birds Are Falling From the Sky. Rj April 24, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: What Republicans Are Doing Is ‘One of the Odd and Scary Things About American Politics’ rj April 19, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: The Man Who Knew Exactly What the F.B.I. Was Doing to Martin Luther King Jr. RJ April 17, 2023
**** Chris Hedges: Taking Back Our Universities From Corporate Apparatchiks – scheerpost.com. rj April 17, 2023
***** NYTimes: The ‘Diploma Divide’ Is the New Fault Line in American Politics. Rj April 17, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: The World Could Move Toward Russia and China rj April 15, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: How to Avoid a War With China rj April 15, 2023
******** NYTimes.com: America, China and a Crisis of Trust rj April 15, 2023
****** NYTimes: Why People Are Fleeing Blue Cities for Red States. Rj April 15, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: A Powerful Theory of Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe rj April 13, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: The Republican Strategists Who Have Carefully Planned All of This rj April 13, 2023
****** The Social Dilemma rj April 10, 2023
******* The A.I. Dilemma – March 9, 2023 rj April 10, 2023
****** NYTimes: How to Make Trump Go Away. Rj April 10, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Fear of an A.I. Pundit rj April 9, 2023
***** Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history rj April 9, 2023
***** Response to Tyler Cowen’s Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history rj April 9, 2023
************ NYTimes.com: The Bank Reform That Will Harm Our Economy and Our Politics rj April 5, 2023
***** NYTimes: The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism. Rj April 3, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: ‘We Were Helpless’: Despair at the C.D.C. as the Pandemic Erupted rj March 27, 2023
*** NYTimes: Change Makes Fools of Us All. Rj March 19, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: How Bad Was the Silicon Valley Bank Bailout? rj March 15, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: The Boys Who Cried ‘Woke!’ rj March 15, 2023
**** PBS Frontline – AGE OF EASY MONEY rj March 15, 2023
****** NYTimes.com: What Really Controls Our Global Economy rj March 13, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: A New Voice for Winning Back Lost Democratic Voters rj March 12, 2023
**** NYTimes.com: The Right’s Obsession With Wokeness Is a Sign of Weakness rj March 12, 2023
******* NYTimes.com: This Changes Everything RJ March 12, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: ‘The Death Knell for Higher Education in Florida’ rj March 9, 2023
**** The New Anarchy rj March 8, 2023
****** The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy – POLITICO Magazine. Rj March 7, 2023
****** NYTimes.com: Is the Marriage Between Democracy and Capitalism on the Rocks? rj February 27, 2023
********** NYTimes.com: How to Destroy (What’s Left of) the Mainstream Media’s Credibility rj February 27, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: Why Fox News Lied to the Viewers It ‘Respects’ rj February 27, 2023
****** NYTimes: A War With China Would Reach Deep Into American Society. Rj February 27, 2023
**** NYTimes: Is China ‘Probing With Bayonets’? Rj February 15, 2023
***** NYTimes: Men Need Purpose More Than ‘Respect’ February 12, 2023
*** NYTimes: Congress Is Investing in Alternatives to Police. Can They Work? Rj February 9, 2023
**** NYTimes: Can China Reverse Its Population Decline? Just Ask Sweden. Rj February 9, 2023
** NYTimes.com: Regulation, Productivity and the Meaning of Life rj February 8, 2023
**** NYTimes: Meet the People Working on Getting Us to Hate Each Other Less. Rj February 8, 2023
*** NYTimes: In the Age of A.I., Major in Being Human. Rj February 3, 2023
******* NYTimes: Where American Democracy Isn’t Very Democratic rj February 3, 2023
***** NYTimes: The Alternative, Optimistic Story of Population Decline January 30, 2023
****** Listen to Maurice Mitchell On Building Resilient Organizations rj January 29, 2023
*** NYTimes: See Workers as Workers, Not as a College Credential rj January 29, 2023
*** NYTimes: Making Farms Organic Is Paying Off. Rj January 28, 2023
*** NYTimes: In State Legislatures, Old Rivalries Are Reheated by National Politics. Rj January 27, 2023
***** NYTimes: Can Anything Be Done to Assuage Rural Rage? January 27, 2023
****** NYTimes: The Resentment Fueling the Republican Party Is Not Coming From the Suburbs. Rj January 26, 2023
*** NYTimes: Laid Off in Your Living Room: The Chaos of Remote Job Cuts. Rj January 25, 2023
**** NYTimes: I’m a Congressman Who Codes. A.I. Freaks Me Out. Rj January 24, 2023
***** NYTimes.com: ‘You Don’t Negotiate With These Kinds of People rj January 18, 2023
**** NYTimes: The Problem(s) With China’s Population Drop. Rj January 17, 2023
***** NYTimes: America’s Must-Win Semiconductor War. Rj January 16, 2023
***** NYTimes: This Is How Red States Silence Blue Cities. And Democracy. Rj January 16, 2023
**** NYTimes: Will Euthanasia Be Secular or Sacred? Rj January 16, 2023
***** NYTimes: A Guide to the ‘Legal Fictions’ That Create Wealth, Inequality and Economic Crises rj January 14, 2023
*** NYTimes: The Chaos Caucus Is Now in Charge rj January 11, 2023
*** NYTimes.com: I Looked Behind the Curtain of American History, and This Is What I Found rj January 8, 2023
**** Reimagine Rural Podcast from Brookings. Rj December 27, 2022
**** Reimagining Rural Policy. Rj December 27, 2022
*** Anthony F. Pipa. Rj December 27, 2022
***** NYTimes: A Policy Renaissance Is Needed for Rural America to Thrive. Rj December 27, 2022
****** NYTimes: Trump Audit Shows Depths of I.R.S. Funding Woes. Rj December 22, 2022
**** NYTimes: Broad, Sunlit Uplands. Rj December 20, 2022
****** NYTimes: The Deadly Lack of Imagination in the Democratic Party. Rj December 20, 2022
***** NYTimes: Why Petulant Oligarchs Rule Our World. Rj December 19, 2022
******** NYTimes: The U.S. Needs to Change the Way It Does Business With China. Rj December 18, 2022
***** NYTimes: What in the World Is Happening in Israel? Rj December 18, 2022
****** NYTimes.com: The Left’s Fever Is Breaking rj December 16, 2022
*** NYTimes: What Would Plato Say About ChatGPT? Rj December 15, 2022
***** NYTimes: The Great Delusion Behind Twitter. Rj December 12, 2022
NYTimes: Want to Know Why Democrats Lose Rural America? Rj December 11, 2022
*** NYTimes.com: The Supreme Court Is Turning Into a Court of First Resort rj December 7, 2022
**** NYTimes: Does ChatGPT Mean Robots Are Coming For the Skilled Jobs? Rj December 7, 2022
******** NYTimes: World War III Begins With Forgetting rj December 3, 2022
****** NYTimes: What Happens When a Cascade of Crises Collide? Rj November 13, 2022
Cities Fail to Generate Upward Mobility, Urban Economist Says November 11, 2022
***** NYTimes: The Untold Story of ‘Russiagate’ and the Road to War in Ukraine. Rj November 11, 2022
**** NYTimes.com: For Republicans, Crime Pays, No Matter What Else Happens November 9, 2022
*** NYTimes.com: The Price of $5 Donations: Is Small-Dollar Fund-Raising Doing More Harm Than Good? rj November 2, 2022
****** NYTimes.com: ‘Elites Are Making Choices That Are Not Good News’ rj November 2, 2022
**** NYTimes: Elon Musk Takes Twitter, and Tech Deals, to Another Level. Rj October 28, 2022
***** Watch “New Rule: Let the Population Collapse | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)” on YouTube rj October 27, 2022
**** NYTimes.com: Where Are They Now? Trump Administration Edition. rj October 5, 2022
**** NYTimes: Education Divides Everything, Including Life and Death. Rj October 5, 2022
**** FW: Let’s talk about the economic roots of white supremacy rj September 24, 2022
*** NYTimes: The Inside Joke That Became Trump’s Big Lie. Rj September 22, 2022
****** NYTimes: The Single Best Guide to Decarbonization I’ve Heard rj September 20, 2022
******* NYTimes: The Greatest Threat to Democracy Is a Feature of Democracy. Rj September 13, 2022
**** NYTimes: It Is a Well-Known Truth That Opponents of Democracy Don’t Want You to Have Nice Things. Rj September 13, 2022
**** NYTimes: Can You Drown Government in an Empty Bathtub? September 2, 2022
**** NYTimes: Ron DeSantis Is a Test Case. Rj August 31, 2022
***** NYTimes: When It Comes to Eating Away at Democracy, Trump Is a Winner. Rj August 24, 2022
**** NYTimes: The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed. Rj August 22, 2022
*** NYTimes: It Was a Mistake to Let Kids Onto Social Media Sites. Here’s What to Do Now. Rj August 6, 2022
***** NYTimes: Private Equity Doesn’t Want You to Read This. Rj August 6, 2022
***** NYTimes: Why Andrew Yang’s New Third Party Is Bound to Fail. Rj July 29, 2022
**** NYTimes: The Mid-Century Media Theorists Who Saw What Was Coming. Rj July 26, 2022
**** NYTimes: I Was Wrong About Capitalism. Rj July 21, 2022
***** NYTimes: I Was Wrong About Trump Voters. Rj July 21, 2022
**** NYTimes: A 2024 Presidential Candidate Who Meets the Moment. Rj July 15, 2022
***** NYTimes: The Dobbs Decision Isn’t Just About Abortion. It’s About Power. Rj June 26, 2022
**** Watch “Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet | NYT Opinion” on YouTube. Rj June 21, 2022
*** Watch “Richard Wolff: The Economic, Political and Social Crisis of the United States” on YouTube. Rj June 20, 2022
**** NYTimes: We Don’t Even Have to Look Up From Our Phones to Hate Each Other. Rj June 15, 2022
***** NYTimes: What America Needs Is a Liberalism That Builds Rj May 29, 2022
**** NYTimes: America May Be Broken Beyond Repair May 27, 2022
**** NYTimes: It’s Not Looking Too Good for Government of the People, by the People and for the People May 27, 2022
***** NYTimes: We Can’t Even Agree on What Is Tearing Us Apart. Rj May 25, 2022
**** NYTimes: How Democrats Can Win the Morality Wars. Rj May 20, 2022
**** NYTimes: What Does the ‘Post-Liberal Right’ Actually Want? Rj May 14, 2022
****** NYTimes: TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks. Rj May 9, 2022
**** NYTimes: The Dangerous Lesson Viktor Orban Taught Republicans April 13, 2022
*** NYTimes: Trade and Peace: The Great Illusion April 11, 2022
*** NYTimes: ‘This Was Trump Pulling a Putin’ April 11, 2022
**** NYTimes: Sanctions Against Russia Are a Form of War. It’s Time We Recognize That. April 6, 2022
**** NYTimes: Transcript: Rogé Karma Interviews Nicholas Mulder for ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ April 6, 2022
***** NYTimes: What Ever Happened to the Great Resignation? April 5, 2022
*** NYTimes: Ukraine Is the First Real World War April 4, 2022
***** NYTimes: Why Putin Went Straight for the Nuclear Threat April 2, 2022
*** NYTimes: Will Putin Kill the Global Economy? April 1, 2022
*** NYTimes: Covid, Russia and Economy Put the ‘China Model’ to the Test March 31, 2022
**** NYTimes: What if Putin Didn’t Miscalculate? March 29, 2022
**** NYTimes: We’re in a Fossil Fuel War. Biden Should Say So. March 26, 2022
*** NYTimes: Putin Only Cares About One Thing, and It’s Not Oligarchs ^ March 25, 2022
**** NYTimes: First Amendment Scholars Want to See the Media Lose These Cases March 13, 2022
****** NYTimes: Welcome to Londongrad, Where Kleptocrats Wash Their Money Clean. ^ March 11, 2022
***** NYTimes: Can the West Stop Russia by Strangling its Economy? March 1, 2022
**** NYTimes: Larry Summers Shares the Blame for Inflation February 28, 2022
**** NYTimes: Three Whiz Kid Economists of the 90’s, Pragmatists All February 28, 2022
***** NYTimes: Why Is Putin at War Again? Because He Keeps Winning. February 27, 2022
***** The Attack Of The Civilization-State February 26, 2022
**** NYTimes: Vladimir Putin’s Clash of Civilizations February 26, 2022
***** NYTimes: There’s a Reason Trump Loves the Truckers February 17, 2022
**** NYTimes: More Places Should Do What Alaska Did to Its Elections February 15, 2022
NYTimes: Status Anxiety Is Blowing Wind Into Trump’s Sails February 9, 2022
**** NYTimes: The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself February 5, 2022
***** NYTimes: It’s Not Too Soon to Start Worrying About Trump’s 2025 Agenda February 2, 2022
***** NYTimes: Our Tribalism Will Be the Death of Us January 27, 2022
***** NYTimes.com: America Has Split, and It’s Now in ‘Very Dangerous Territory’ January 26, 2022
***** NYTimes: The Problem of Political Despair January 22, 2022
**** NYTimes: Jan. 6 Looks Different Through the Lens of ‘American Carnage’ January 7, 2022
*** NYTimes: Why Democrats Are So Bad at Defending Democracy January 7, 2022
**** NYTimes: Jan. 6 Looks Different Through the Lens of ‘American Carnage’ January 6, 2022
**** NYTimes: We Will Look Back on This Age of Cruelty to Animals in Horror January 1, 2022
**** NYTimes: China’s Ban on ‘Sissy Men’ Is Bound to Backfire January 1, 2022
***** NYTimes: What We Learned About the Economy in 2021 j9 December 31, 2021
**** NYTimes: Behind Low Vaccination Rates Lurks a More Profound Social Weakness December 21, 2021
**** NYTimes: How to Tell When Your Country Is Past the Point of No Return. December 15, 2021
**** NYTimes: Trump Won’t Let America Go. Can Democrats Pry It Away? ^ December 9, 2021
*** NYTimes: The Trump Conspiracy Is Hiding in Plain Sight ^ December 3, 2021
***** NYTimes.com: The Most Powerful Data Broker in the World Is Winning the War Against the U.S. November 30, 2021
***** NYTimes.com: How China Obtains American Trade Secrets November 30, 2021
**** NYTimes: The Metaverse: Expectations vs. Reality ^ November 11, 2021
NYTimes: The Chip That Could Transform Computing November 11, 2021
NYTimes: Wokeness Derails the Democrats November 6, 2021
*** NYTimes: ‘Why Does it Have to Be Slaveholders That We Unite Around?’ October 19, 2021
NYTimes: What if We’ll Never Truly Be Free? October 8, 2021
*** Nicholas Christakis: The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence September 7, 2021
*** Watch “The Future of Humanity, Malcolm Gladwell – WGS 2018” on YouTube September 7, 2021
** NYTimes: The American Empire in Retreat September 6, 2021
***** NYTimes: The Gentrification of Blue America August 29, 2021
***** NYTimes: The Foreign Policy Conversation Washington Doesn’t Want to Have August 27, 2021
*** NYTimes: Let’s Not Pretend That the Way We Withdrew From Afghanistan Was the Problem August 26, 2021
*** NYTimes: This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma August 24, 2021
*** NYTimes.com: Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Spencer Ackerman August 10, 2021
*** ‘The Standard American Diet Kills Us Slowly in Normal Times and Quickly in Covid Times’ August 10, 2021
***** NYTimes.com: What if Humans Just Can’t Get Along Anymore? August 4, 2021
-home NYTimes: ‘Lean Into It. Lean Into the Culture War.’ July 14, 2021
NYTimes: Trumpism Without Borders June 16, 2021
NYTimes: Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left June 15, 2021
*** I asked a wise man…. April 21, 2021
*** Opinion Today: Your house doesn’t know your racial identity, right? March 22, 2021
NYTimes: Democrats Are Anxious About 2022 — and 2024 March 10, 2021
***** NYTimes: What Racism Costs All Americans February 16, 2021
**NYTimes: How Long Can Democracy Survive QAnon and Its Allies? February 10, 2021
*NYTimes: ‘Woke’ American Ideas Are a Threat, French Leaders Say February 9, 2021
******* American fascism isn’t going away February 5, 2021
******* NYTimes: ‘The Capitol Insurrection Was as Christian Nationalist as It Gets.’ January 28, 2021
****** NYTimes: Trump Wants Back on Facebook. This Star-Studded Jury Might Let Him. January 25, 2021
****** NYTimes: White Riot January 13, 2021
*** Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era | Daniel Levitin | Talks at Google January 13, 2021
***** NYTimes: The Resentment That Never Sleeps January 13, 2021
***** NYTimes: The Roots of Josh Hawley’s Rage January 11, 2021
**** NYTimes: We Worked Together on the Internet. Last Week, He Stormed the Capitol. January 10, 2021
**** NYTimes: Have Trump’s Lies Wrecked Free Speech? January 6, 2021
**** NYTimes: Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery January 1, 2021
***** NYTimes: 2020 Taught Us How to Fix This December 31, 2020
***** Watch “Diálogo magistral de Yuval Noah Harari y Michael J. Sandel. Los dilemas de un mundo que colapsa” on YouTube December 30, 2020
+++ NYTimes.com: Rev. William Barber on Greed, Poverty and Evangelical Politics December 29, 2020
******* NYTimes: To Understand Red-State America, He Urges a Look at Red-State Israel December 19, 2020
**** NYTimes: Google’s Legal Peril Grows in Face of Third Antitrust Suit December 17, 2020
**** NYTimes: Twitter and Facebook Are a Huge Problem. But So Are We. December 14, 2020
**** Interesting quote from “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” December 4, 2020
“Yes it is likely that we are reaching an inflection point beyond which our imagination fails.” November 27, 2020
The election is over – China won November 27, 2020
NYTimes: Splitting 5 to 4, Supreme Court Backs Religious Challenge to Cuomo’s Virus Shutdown Order November 26, 2020
Watch – Yuval Noah Harari on the Rise of Homo Deus November 18, 2020
Watch – How Thomas Friedman and Yuval Noah Harari Think About The Future of Humanity November 18, 2020
NYTimes.com: Inside the Chaotic, Cutthroat Gray Market for N95 Masks November 17, 2020
In Georgia, private equity is investing in a divided government. November 17, 2020
Watch – 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari | Talks at Google November 17, 2020
NYTimes: Our Political System Is Unfair. Liberals Need to Just Deal With It. November 17, 2020
NYTimes: Why the 2020 Election Makes It Hard to be Optimistic About the Future November 17, 2020
Watch – NYTimes.com: Meet the KGB Spies Who Invented Fake News November 11, 2020
Watch – NYTimes.com: The Seven Commandments of Fake News November 11, 2020
Watch – NYTimes.com: The Worldwide War on Truth November 11, 2020
Watch – NYTimes.com: Atención! Murderer Next Door November 11, 2020
NYTimes: What Is Trump Playing at? November 11, 2020
*** NYTimes: What Will Trump Do After Election Day? October 31, 2020
NYTimes: There Will Be No Trump Coup October 11, 2020
Watch “Michael Sandel: The Tyranny of Merit” on YouTube October 7, 2020
Watch “The moral roots of liberals and conservatives – Jonathan Haidt” on YouTube October 7, 2020
NYTimes.com: Finding the ‘Common Good’ in a Pandemic October 7, 2020
MUST Watch Michael Sandel – “Are There Things Money Shouldn’t Be Able To Buy?” October 7, 2020
Tectonic Forces Driving the Polarization that Caused the Current Echo Chambers to Form September 27, 2020
NYTimes: Will Trump’s Presidency Ever End? September 25, 2020
NYTimes: A Supreme Court Fight Might Be Exactly What America Needs September 25, 2020
NYTimes: Trump Is Wrong About TikTok. China’s Plans Are Much More Sinister. September 18, 2020
Watch “Debunking the Myth of the Middle Class | Amanpour and Company” on YouTube September 15, 2020
NYTimes: A Free Market Manifesto That Changed the World, Reconsidered September 13, 2020
NYTimes.com: The Trouble With Empathy September 5, 2020
NYTimes: Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice September 2, 2020
Kenosha police in armored vehicles thanks armed militia and gave water – Business Insider August 28, 2020
NYTimes: Kenosha Tells Us More About Where the Right Is Headed Than the R.N.C. Did August 28, 2020
NYTimes: Trump and the Politics of ‘Mean World’ August 28, 2020
MUST WATCH – NYTimes: Plans Are Dumb: The Republican Platform for 2020 August 27, 2020
NYTimes: Trump and His Allies Don’t Like Masks of Any Kind August 26, 2020
NYTimes: I’m a Black Police Officer. Here’s How to Change the System. July 18, 2020
*** Must Watch — Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History (Peter Turchin) July 17, 2020
Planet Money – Patent Racism July 14, 2020
MUST READ – NYTimes: How the World Missed Covid-19’s Silent Spread June 27, 2020
NYTimes: Allies, Don’t Fail Us Again June 7, 2020
NYTimes: Why the Coronavirus Is Winning June 7, 2020
MUST READ – NYTimes: George Floyd Protests: Live News and Updates June 6, 2020
MUST READ – NYTimes: The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It. June 6, 2020
Watch – City of DC Names Street to White House After Black Lives Matter; Emblazons Name on Road June 5, 2020
Watch – Police pull over Florida state attorney June 4, 2020
Watch – Downtown Salt Lake City Protests Elderly Man knocked down June 4, 2020
NYTimes: Trump Uses the Military to Prove His Manhood June 4, 2020
FW: Opinion Today: Why we published the Tom Cotton Op-Ed June 4, 2020
NYTimes: Workers Fearful of the Coronavirus Are Getting Fired and Losing Their Benefits June 4, 2020
NYTimes: Tom Cotton: Send In the Military June 4, 2020
NYTimes: America, We Break It, It’s Gone June 4, 2020
NYTimes: Why Aren’t Republicans Trying to Please Voters? May 27, 2020
NYTimes: The Brutal Clarity of the Trump-McConnell Plan to Protect Businesses May 26, 2020
NYTimes: How Many Will Die for the Dow? May 22, 2020
NYTimes: When the Mask You’re Wearing ‘Tastes Like Socialism’ May 20, 2020
NYTimes: Too Big to Fail: The Entire Private Sector May 19, 2020
NYTimes: Donald Trump Doesn’t Want Authority May 19, 2020
[Capital Newspapers Inc., madison.com ] Plain Talk: Wisconsin gets the derision it deserves for its partisan Supreme Court May 17, 2020
NYTimes: What We Know About Your Chances of Catching the Virus Outdoors May 15, 2020
NYTimes: The Covid-19 Riddle: Why Does the Virus Wallop Some Places and Spare Others? May 3, 2020
**** Watch “Bill Gates says US system produces ‘bogus’ testing numbers” on YouTube May 1, 2020
NYTimes: Mitch McConnell Is Not as Clever as He Thinks He Is April 24, 2020
NYTimes: Trump Reaches Back Into His Old Bag of Populist Tricks loo April 22, 2020
NYTimes: Why Some Republicans Are Blocking New Coronavirus Relief April 17, 2020
NYTimes: Embracing the Uncertainties April 15, 2020
NYTimes: Food Workers Say C.D.C. Guidelines Put Them at Greater Risk for Infection April 15, 2020
NYTimes: Coronavirus Threatens the Future of a Small Town in New Hampshire April 15, 2020
NYTimes: The Coronavirus Has Laid Bare the Inequality of America’s Health Care April 14, 2020
Elections have consequences. The coronavirus reaction shows we’re now living with them. – The Washington Post April 14, 2020
Watch “Republican Strategist Denounces the Party’s Response to COVID-19 | Amanpour and Company” on YouTube April 14, 2020
NYTimes: Five Takeaways on What Trump Knew as the Virus Spread April 11, 2020
NYTimes: The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus April 11, 2020
NYTimes: Could the Pandemic Wind Up Fixing What’s Broken About Work in America? April 10, 2020
MUST LISTEN – Wisconsin Election – Check out The Daily April 7, 2020
MUST READ – NYTimes: The United States Needs a ‘Smart Quarantine’ April 7, 2020
NYTimes: Why Is Trump So Timid With the Defense Production Act? April 3, 2020
NYTimes: These Coronavirus Exposures Might Be the Most Dangerous April 1, 2020
MUST READ – NYTimes: Covid-19 Is Twisting 2020 Beyond All Recognition April 1, 2020
MUST READ – NYTimes: Will Our Economy Die From Coronavirus? March 31, 2020
MUST READ – NYTimes: The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed. March 29, 2020
MUST READ – NYTimes: The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to Covid-19 March 29, 2020
NYTimes: The Road to Coronavirus Hell Was Paved by Evangelicals March 27, 2020
Watch “Dr. Fauci: You don’t make the timeline, the virus does” on YouTube March 26, 2020
NYTimes: Who Knew Grocery Shopping Could Be So Stressful? March 26, 2020
NYTimes: In God We Divide March 25, 2020
NYTimes: How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of Face Masks⁷ March 25, 2020
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance – Tomas Pueyo – Medium March 23, 2020
NYTimes: Harsh Steps Are Needed to Stop the Coronavirus, Experts Say⁸ March 22, 2020
Watch “Why obvious lies make great propaganda” on YouTube March 22, 2020
Watch “The Light Show With Stephen Colb-Air – We’re All In This Together” on YouTube March 22, 2020
MUST WATCH “Comedians have figured out the trick to covering Trump” on YouTube March 22, 2020
MUST READ — NYTimes: The Epic Failure of Coronavirus Testing in America March 19, 2020
NYTimes: Drug Companies Will Make a Killing From Coronavirus March 18, 2020
NYTimes: Younger Adults Comprise Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S. March 18, 2020
NYTimes: One Simple Idea That Explains Why the Economy Is in Great Danger March 18, 2020
NYTimes: Which Areas in America Are Worse Off Since 2016? March 16, 2020
Empowering Entrepreneurs and Investors to Forge a More Dynamic U.S. Economy – Economic Innovation Group March 16, 2020
2018 DCI Map – National Zip Code Map – Economic Innovation Group March 16, 2020
2018 Distressed Communities Index – Economic Innovation Group March 16, 2020
The New Map of Economic Growth and Recovery – Economic Innovation Group March 16, 2020
New Study Reveals Unprecedented Collapse of New Business Formation During the Economic Recovery – Economic Innovation Group March 16, 2020
NYTimes: How Right-Wing Pundits Are Covering Coronavirus March 12, 2020
NYTimes: Unjust America loop February 25, 2020
An Airbnb For Farmland Hits A Snag, As Farmers Raise Data Privacy Concerns : The Salt February 24, 2020
NYTimes: Why Democrats Are Bound for Disaster February 21, 2020
NYTimes: Why Did the Coronavirus Outbreak Start in China? February 20, 2020
NYTimes: The Flawed Humanity of Silicon Valley February 8, 2020
NYTimes: The Government Uses ‘Near Perfect Surveillance’ Data on Americans February 8, 2020
NYTimes: Why Democrats Still Have to Appeal to the Center, but Republicans Don’t February 6, 2020
NYTimes: In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear February 6, 2020
NYTimes: After Acquittal, It’s Anything Goes for the Republicans February 6, 2020
NYTimes: If Bernie Wins, Where Will He Take the Democratic Party? February 5, 2020
NYTimes: How the Far Right Became Europe’s New Normal February 4, 2020
NYTimes: George Soros: Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Be in Control of FacebookI’m February 3, 2020
NYTimes: The Only Way to Remove Trump February 3, 2020
NYTimes: Greta Versus the Greedy Grifters January 28, 2020
NYTimes: You Are Now Remotely Controlled January 26, 2020
NYTimes: The Apps on My Phone Are Stalking Me January 22, 2020
NYTimes: The Road to Auschwitz Wasn’t Paved With Indifference January 21, 2020
NYTimes.com: A Meticulous Account of Trump’s Tenure Reads Like a Comic Horror Story January 17, 2020
The Daily – The Russian Hacking Plan for 2020 – January 15, 2020
NYTimes: Seattle Takes On Citizens United January 14, 2020
Australia Shows Us the Road to Hell January 11, 2020
******** NYTimes: Buckle Up for Another Facebook Election January 10, 2020
*** NYTimes: Hypersonic Missiles Are a Game Changer January 2, 2020
PBS Newshoour: Local newsrooms across the country are closing. Here’s why that matters January 1, 2020
NYTimes: Bill Barr Thinks America Is Going to Hell December 31, 2019
******** NYTimes: The Legacy of Destructive Austerity December 31, 2019
*** NYTimes: The Presidential Nominating Process Is Absurd December 30, 2019
**** NYTimes.com: Big Money and America’s Lost Decade December 28, 2019
**** NYTimes: The 2010s Were the End of Normal December 28, 2019
***** NYTimes.com: The Media Is Broken December 27, 2019
**** South America Is in a Quandary. Just Like the United States. December 24, 2019
***** NYTimes: Trump Has a Gift for Tearing Us Apart December 14, 2019
****** NYTimes: How Trump Weaponized the Justice Department’s Inspector General December 13, 2019
******** NYTimes: The Politics of Exhaustion December 13, 2019
****** Opinion | We No Longer Expect Privacy. You Can Change That. – The New York Times December 4, 2019
******* NYTimes: The Revolt Against Populism November 21, 2019
**** NYTimes: Fox News? More Like Trump’s Impeachment Shield November 17, 2019
***** NYTimes: The End of Babies November 17, 2019
***** NYTimes: We Hate Data Collection. That Doesn’t Mean We Can Stop It. November 16, 2019
**** NYTimes.com: Elizabeth Warren Is Asking the Most Important Question on Health Care November 6, 2019
******* NYTimes: The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data? November 3, 2019
****** NYTimes: To Beat Trump, Focus on His Corruption November 3, 2019
**** NYTimes: Tech Companies Are Destroying Democracy and the Free Press October 18, 2019
***** NYTimes: Trump Is Winning the Online War October 16, 2019
****** NYTimes: Could Facebook Actually Nuke Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign? October 11, 2019
****** NYTimes: Why You Shouldn’t Believe Tech Companies October 9, 2019
****** NYTimes: How to Stop Superhuman A.I. Before It Stops Us October 8, 2019
*** NYTimes: In the Land of Self-Defeat October 5, 2019
****** NYTimes: Will Trump Ever Leave the White House? October 2, 2019
******** NYTimes: The Corruption Before Trump October 1, 2019
****** NYTimes: What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change? October 1, 2019
******** NYTimes: What’s the Matter With Republicans? September 30, 2019
***** NYTimes: Red and Blue Voters Live in Different Economies September 25, 2019
****** NYTimes: The Virtuous Corporation Is Not an Oxymoron September 23, 2019
******** Listen to: Reckoning September 15, 2019
******** NYTimes: The Trump Voters Whose ‘Need for Chaos’ Obliterates Everything Else September 4, 2019
****** NYTimes: The American Economy Is Creating a National Identity Crisis August 28, 2019
***** Check out Introducing ‘1619,’ a New York Times Audio Series from The Daily August 23, 2019
**** NYTimes: What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of Slavery August 19, 2019
****** NYTimes: The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism August 11, 2019
**** NYTimes: The Ideology of Hate and How to Fight It August 6, 2019
*** Embedded – Judges 2: ‘Worse Than Willie Horton’ August 5, 2019
**** NYTimes: The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism August 5, 2019
***** Peter Thiel Pledges to Support Trump’s 2020 Campaign August 2, 2019
****** NYTimes: Good for Google, Bad for America August 2, 2019
***** NYTimes: Do the Republicans Even Believe in Democracy Anymore? July 1, 2019
***** NYTimes: Voters, Your Foreign Policy Views Stink! June 15, 2019
*** Listen to: Episode 919: Are Cities Overrated? June 14, 2019
**** NYTimes: The Meritocracy Is Under Siege June 13, 2019
****** The Daily – A New Way to Solve a Murder, Part 1: The Genetic Detectives – June 6, 2019
****** Listen to: Weaponized Interdependence: The End of Globalization? June 6, 2019
*** Listen to: Russian Investment In Kentucky Aluminum Mill Raises Questions For Some Congress Members June 6, 2019
***** NYTimes: When It Comes to the Senate, the Democrats Have Their Work Cut Out for Them June 5, 2019
******* NYTimes: The Coming G.O.P. Apocalypse June 4, 2019
***** NYTimes: The Day Christian Fundamentalism Was Born May 26, 2019
***** NYTimes: The Rise of the Haphazard Self May 14, 2019
****** NYTimes: ‘The Right Has a Greater Appreciation of Labor’s Role Than We Do’ May 2, 2019
*** NYTimes: There Should Be More Rituals! April 22, 2019
****** NYTimes: Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron April 22, 2019
******* NYTimes: It’s Not the Collusion, It’s the Corruption April 19, 2019
******* NYTimes: The Case for Investigating Facebook March 19, 2019
****** NYTimes: Getting Real About Rural America March 18, 2019
***** NYTimes: Trump Crackdown Unnerves Immigrants, and Farmers Who Need Them March 18, 2019
**** Planet Money – Antitrust 2: The Paradox – https://radiopublic.com/ March 16, 2019
***** NYTimes: If Stalin Had a Smartphone March 12, 2019
**** NYTimes: What’s Left of the Center-Left? March 5, 2019
****** NYTimes: The Deepening ‘Racialization’ of American Politics February 27, 2019
****** NYTimes: Don’t Fight the Robots. Tax Them. February 24, 2019
****** NYTimes: Everything Is War and Nothing Is True February 24, 2019
****** NYTimes: Is America Becoming a Four-Party State? February 19, 2019
NYTimes: The ‘Rotten Equilibrium’ of Republican Politics January 30, 2019
NYTimes: BuzzFeed’s Controversial Cohen Story Raises Question: Did Trump Want to Be President? January 19, 2019
******* NYTimes: The Fight Over Men Is Shaping Our Political Future January 17, 2019
***** NYTimes: White Identity Politics Aren’t Going Anywhere December 28, 2018
****** NYTimes: A New Center Being Born December 21, 2018
******* NYTimes: Conservatism’s Monstrous Endgame December 18, 2018
***** NYTimes: The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s December 5, 2018
**** NYTimes: Be Afraid of Economic ‘Bigness.’ Be Very Afraid. November 11, 2018
****** NYTimes: America’s Small-Town Crisis November 10, 2018
Good box *****NYTimes: What the Working Class Is Still Trying to Tell Us November 9, 2018
****** NYTimes: The Polarizer in Chief Meets the Midterms November 8, 2018
***** NYTimes: The Polarizer in Chief Meets the Midterms November 8, 2018
****** NYTimes: The Psychology of Anti-Semitism November 4, 2018
*** NYTimes: The Weaknesses in Liberal Democracy That May Be Pulling It Apart November 3, 2018
**** NYTimes: The Trump Legions November 1, 2018
****** NYTimes: When Trump Voters Go For Democrats November 1, 2018
******* NYTimes: Congress Has No Clue What Americans Want October 31, 2018
**** NYTimes: The Great Center-Right Delusion October 31, 2018
****** NYTimes: The Growing Crisis of Democracy October 17, 2018
******** NYTimes: The Rich White Civil War October 15, 2018
**** NYTimes: Trump May Not Be on the Ballot, but He Will Be on Everyone’s Mind October 4, 2018
**** NYTimes: Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory September 30, 2018
**** NYTimes: They Say Sexual Assault, Kavanaugh Says It Never Happened: Sifting Truth From Memory September 26, 2018
******** NYTimes: How the Next Downturn Will Surprise Us September 19, 2018
****** NYTimes: What Do We Actually Know About the Economy? (Wonkish) September 17, 2018
**** NYTimes: Days of Fear, Years of Obstruction September 14, 2018
***** NYTimes: From Trump to Trade, the Financial Crisis Still Resonates 10 Years Later September 11, 2018
*** NYTimes: Silicon Valley Needs Regulation September 11, 2018
***** NYTimes: The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult August 31, 2018
**** NYTimes: Why It Can Happen Here August 27, 2018
***** NYTimes: Capitalism, Socialism, and Unfreedom August 26, 2018
***** NYTimes: Inviting the Next Financial Crisis August 26, 2018
**** NYTimes: Are Superstar Firms and Amazon Effects Reshaping the Economy? August 25, 2018
**** NYTimes: The Tax-Cut Con Goes On August 23, 2018
****** NYTimes: In a Divided Era, One Thing Seems to Unite: Political Anger August 17, 2018
***** NYTimes: Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About ‘Trump Country’ August 16, 2018
*** NYTimes: Our Blind Spots Often Hide the Truth About America August 16, 2018
***** NYTimes: The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won August 15, 2018
**** NYTimes: Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap August 14, 2018
******** NYTimes: We Are Merging With Robots. That’s a Good Thing. August 13, 2018
****** From Axios: 1 big thing: How tech fuels authoritarians August 13, 2018
****** NYTimes: The White Strategy August 11, 2018
******* NYTimes: The Voters Who Will Decide the Midterms August 6, 2018
****** NYTimes: Manufacturers Increase Efforts to Woo Workers to Rural Areas August 3, 2018
***** NYTimes: The Democratic Party Picked an Odd Time to Have an Identity Crisis August 2, 2018
***** NYTimes: The Third-Party Option July 31, 2018
*** NYTimes: Why Don’t We Always Vote in Our Own Self-Interest? July 20, 2018
********* NYTimes: The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit July 13, 2018
******* NYTimes: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Rise of Radical Incompetence July 13, 2018
********* NYTimes: What Happens if the Gender Gap Becomes a Gender Chasm? July 12, 2018
******** NYTimes.com: Don’t Feed the Troll in the Oval Office July 3, 2018
***** NYTimes: Why Do We Value Country Folk More Than City People? June 27, 2018
****** NYTimes: The Ignorant Do Not Have a Right to an Audience June 25, 2018
****** NYTimes: As Critics Assail Trump, His Supporters Dig In Deeper June 24, 2018
**** on totalitarianism. ** NYTimes: The Illuminations of Hannah Arendt June 21, 2018
**** NYTimes: The Devil and Tom Donohue June 20, 2018
***** NYTimes: The Trump Doctrine Is Winning and the World Is Losing June 16, 2018
******* NYTimes: How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany? June 16, 2018
****** NYTimes: Grim Trends in Good Times June 10, 2018
***** NYTimes: The Problem With Wokeness June 8, 2018
***** Explosive growth in bulls**t studies! The latest academic frontier in the age of You Know Who | Salon.com June 2, 2018
****** How to discourage bullshit and make better decisions, according to psychology — Quartz at Work June 2, 2018
***** NYTimes: One Reform to Save America June 1, 2018
******* NYTimes: Trump Against the Tide May 31, 2018
***** list several good resources to make points about inequity — NYTimes: The Profound Social Cost of American Exceptionalism May 30, 2018
***** NYTimes: The Baptist Apocalypse May 30, 2018
***** NYTimes: Our Broken Trust in Public Space May 28, 2018
****** NYTimes: The Strange Failure of the Educated Elite May 28, 2018
****** NYTimes: A Rescue Plan for a Jobs Crisis in the Heartland May 25, 2018
***** NYTimes: The Self-Destruction of American Democracy May 25, 2018
******* NYTimes: As Population Growth Slows, Populism Surges May 22, 2018
****** NYTimes: What’s the Matter With Europe? May 21, 2018
******** NYTimes: The Fall of the German Empire May 16, 2018
******* NYTimes: Industrial Revolutions Are Political Wrecking Balls May 3, 2018
***** NYTimes: Meet the New Boss. Actually Quite Different From the Old Boss. April 26, 2018
**** NYTimes: Liberalism’s Golden Dream April 25, 2018
**** NYTimes: The Democrats’ Gentrification Problem April 19, 2018
******* NYTimes: What You Don’t Know About How Facebook Uses Your Data April 11, 2018
******* NYTimes: The Failures of Anti-Trumpism April 10, 2018
***** NYTimes: Putting the Ex-Con in Conservatism March 27, 2018
**** NYTimes: How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and Google March 24, 2018
******* NYTimes: Globalization’s Backlash Is Here, at Just the Wrong Time March 24, 2018
********** NYTimes: Should Democrats Embrace the Center or Abandon It? March 22, 2018
*** NYTimes: Facebook Doesn’t Get It March 21, 2018
***** NYTimes: Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes March 21, 2018
********** NYTimes: Facebook’s Surveillance Machine March 21, 2018
********* NYTimes: Russia Banned My Movie. Hold Your Applause. March 10, 2018
********* NYTimes: When Smug Liberals Met Conservative Trolls March 9, 2018
***** NYTimes: Fights Worth Having March 1, 2018
** NYTimes: What if You Couldn’t Access This Page? December 14, 2017
**** NYTimes: Democrats Are Walking Into a Trumpian Trap December 14, 2017