Making Sense of Biden-Warren Voters
David Becker/ZUMA I was thinking the other day about people whose top two choices in the Democratic primary are Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren. How bizarre! I mean, are you a centrist or a progressive? How can those two be your top choices? Do people even know what the candidates stand for? But it turns…
Are Manufacturing Workers in High Demand?
The Wall Street Journal reports that American manufacturers are having a hard time finding workers: Half a million U.S. factory jobs are unfilled, the most in nearly two decades, and the unemployment rate is hovering at a 50-year low, the Labor Department said Friday. At the same time, Americans are moving around the country at…
I Would Like to Amend My Recent Remarks Calling for the Imminent Death of the Wing
Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post/Getty I never thought I would get to go to the Wing, the women-only co-working space and “diverse community open to all” whose demise I gleefully cheered for just a few weeks ago. I resented the place, frequented by the likes of Lena Dunham and Tavi Gevinson, because I considered its $2,350…
“Boys Will Be Boys” Lets Men Like Kavanaugh and Trump Off the Hook. Let’s Let It Die.
President Donald Trump paws Brett Kavanaugh at the swearing-in of the US Supreme Court justice.Oliver Contreras/Sipa/AP Donald Trump, still the president, has been credibly accused of extortion. He has also been credibly accused of rape. He was impeached for one of these. Just let that fact detonate again in the narrative of who this escape artist…
Australia’s Wallabies, Recovering From Fires, Fed by Carrots Falling From the Sky
A wallaby eating a carrotNew South Wales Environment Minister Environment Minister Matt Kean Thousands of pounds of carrots and sweet potatoes are falling from the sky in Australia, air-dropped to help feed the Brush-tailed Rock wallabies whose habitats have been devastated by massive brushfires. The wallabies, agile marsupials that use their furred tails for balance…
Thousands of Iranians Have Bravely Protested the Government’s Role in Ukrainian Plane Crash
A woman attending a candlelight vigil for victims of Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 talks with a police officer at Amirkabir University in Tehran on Saturday.Mona Hoobehfekr/ISNA /AFP/Getty Thousands of people took to the streets across Iran this weekend to condemn their government for shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane—killing all 176 people on board—and…