Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A sign is seen outside a Wall Street Journal office on Avenue of the Americas | Mario Tama/Getty New rules mean that passport holders of the 38 countries who previously could visit the United States without a visa now must obtain a visa if they are dual nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria or Sudan By…
DES MOINES — Republican leaders are growing alarmed by the ferocious ways the party’s mainstream candidates for president are attacking one another, and they fear that time is running out for any of them to emerge as a credible alternative to Donald J. Trump or Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. Leaders of the Republican establishment,…
Last week I critiqued Bernie Sanders for dismissing reparations specifically, and for offering up a series of moderate anti-racist solutions, in general. Some felt it was unfair to single out Sanders given that, on reparations, Sanders’s chief opponent Hillary Clinton holds the same position. This argument proposes that we abandon the convention of judging our…
Bernie Sanders speaking in Littleton, New Hampshire, August 2015 (Michael Vadon / Flickr) Paul Krugman has joined the self-appointed political grownups closing ranks around Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders. In a piece titled “How Change Happens,” the liberal economist and New York Times columnist insists, “The question Sanders supporters should ask is, When has their theory of change…
Katrina Pierson, the national spokesperson for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, on Sunday defended her call for a “pure breed” president by arguing that she was a “half-breed” like President Barack Obama. In 2012, Pierson had complained that both then-GOP nominee Mitt Romney and Obama were not “pure breeds” because their fathers had not been born…
The “reductive seduction” is not malicious, but it can be reckless. For two reasons. First, it’s dangerous for the people whose problems you’ve mistakenly diagnosed as easily solvable. There is real fallout when well-intentioned people attempt to solve problems without acknowledging the underlying complexity. There are so many examples. As David Bornstein wrote in The…
Entry Text UPDATE: 8:38 p.m. ET — RCMP say four people were killed in a shooting in northern Saskatchewan, not five as the prime minister said earlier. LA LOCHE, Sask. — A student who was just returning from lunch when shots were fired at a northern Saskatchewan school Friday said his friends ran past him…
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a rally endorsing U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for President at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa January 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mark Kauzlarich Sarah Palin’s endorsement has been a bomb with the very people that she was supposed to sway as Donald Trump supporters came away from listening…
Heckuva job, Jebbie Fact: Every single thing about Jeb Bush is the most pathetic fucking thing we have ever seen. We already feel pretend-guilty enough as it is for continuing to report to you each new Most Pathetic Fucking Thing he does, but it’s not our fault. He keeps doing it! And doing it again. And…
Gee thanks, Mom We’re going to need a bigger file drawer for this latest entry under Sad Jeb Bush Is Sad, So Sad, Gahhh, We Need A Drink, That’s How Sad He Is. His own mother, who has made it quite clear she doesn’t care for him much and thinks he’s kind of a loser (and she’s not wrong!),…