Are You Stupid If You Don’t Like Subtitles?
Kevin Drum I have one more quick point I’d like to make about the great subtitle war. A great deal of the pushback I got went something like this: Anyone who knows anything about cinema prefers subtitles to dubbing. Only idiots who can’t read would choose a dubbed movie instead. It’s true that movie buffs…
The Benefits of Being Joe Biden’s Brother
Joe Biden, is joined by his family including his sister, Valerie Biden Owens, left, his son, Hunter, his wife Jill and his brother Jimmy at a rally in Dubuque, Iowa in 2008Mark Hirsch/AP Photo This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story…
How Do You Make Music When The World Really Is Ending?
Gonzales/Tord Litleskare/Avalon/Zuma The cover of The Slow Rush—the latest album from Tame Impala, Kevin Parker’s one-man-band from Perth, Australia—looks like the old red moon desert Windows desktop wallpaper invading an uninhabited house. Maybe that association is an accident. But I find it fitting that a wisp of memory common to anyone who used a PC in…
Why Don’t Polls Have More Information About Black Voters?
Rashawn Ray wants us to stop treating African Americans as a monolithic group: Black Americans vote on par or higher than their state population. They represent a significant share of Democratic voters, especially in states like South Carolina (nearly 60%). Despite representing this large voting bloc, polls such as Quinnipiac continue to frame black Americans…
Want to Save the Planet? Easy! Just “Be More Like Donald”
Jacquelyn Martin/AP President Trump is reading a book, and he would very much like you to know about it. It’s a book about himself, called Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero, self-published in 2016 by his former environmental consultant, Edward Russo. Beginning in 2002, Russo consulted on the Trump Organization’s golf courses on matters like…
A Federal Appeals Court Just Said Trump’s Medicaid Work Requirements Is Illegal
Arkansas purged 18,000 recipients from its Medicaid program via work requirements.Andrew DeMillo/AP The DC Court of Appeals ruled this morning against pilot projects that impose work requirements on Medicaid. Why? Because the Medicaid statute identifies one, and only one, goal for the Medicaid program: to furnish medical assistance on behalf of families who can’t afford…