Is This the Greatest Listicle of All Time?
Are you on Team Harry¹ or Team Royals? My household is split. However, the royal dustup has now produced one undeniable triumph: this listicle from BuzzFeed, which might be the greatest listicle of all time. Of course, I would say that, wouldn’t I, as a Team H person? ¹By which we mean Team Harry/Meghan, of…
Don’t Let Trump Fool You Into Thinking He’s Improving Health Care
Alex Edelman/CNP/Zuma President Donald Trump took to Twitter Monday morning with a brazenly false claim about his health care policy. Mini Mike Bloomberg is spending a lot of money on False Advertising. I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare, you have it now, while at the same time winning the fight…
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…