No, Kamala Harris Isn’t Being Preposterous
Over at National Review, John McCormack says that Kamala Harris is being “preposterous” about her Medicare for All plan: “Senator Sanders says that that is impossible to achieve without a middle class tax hike,” CNN correspondent Kyung Lah says. “I’m not prepared to engage in a middle class tax hike,” Harris replies, suggesting that taxes…
LA Needs an Old Approach to Homelessness
Homeless in LA.Kevin Drum A couple of years ago LA passed a big bond measure to address its homelessness problem. The money is mostly earmarked for permanent shelter, which is, needless to say, expensive and time-consuming to build. I’ve long thought that this makes little sense, but I’m no expert—as people are fond of reminding…
Does Waymo Really Have Self-Driving Cars Ready to Go?
Andrej Sokolow/DPA via ZUMA The New York Times says that automakers are resetting their expectations for self-driving cars after discovering that there’s more weird behavior on the road than they anticipated: Argo’s chief executive, Bryan Salesky, said the industry’s bigger promise of creating driverless cars that could go anywhere was “way in the future.” He…
Judge Bars Roger Stone From Social Media
Roger Stone arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse with his wife, Nydia Stone, on July 16, 2019.Win McNamee/Getty Images A federal judge banned Roger Stone from using popular social media platforms after finding he had repeatedly violated her order barring him from publicly commenting on the case against him, but she stopped…
Go Forth and Nutpick No More
Vox reporter Jane Coaston is trying to turn over a new leaf: So, in other news, something I am working on is avoiding “nutpicking” — finding the most bananas example of a certain group and extrapolating that that is the group itself. So I’d like to preface the following by saying that this is not…
“What’s Your Ethnicity?” Kellyanne Conway Defends Trump With Shocking Question to Reporter
Oliver Contreras/AP More than two days after President Donald Trump published a thread of incendiary and racist tweets telling four Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “crime-infested” “countries” “from which they came,” the president has repeatedly declined to specify exactly which countries he was suggesting the freshmen Democrats return to. The target…