What Did I Get Wrong This Year?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier today I criticized Ross Douthat’s column acknowledging that he was wrong about deficits. That’s fine, some might say, but what about you, big talker? Any big mistakes you’d like to own up to this year? Sure. The problem here isn’t ego, it’s laziness. I…
Now Is the Time to Be a Deficit Hawk
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ross Douthat decided to devote his entire year-end “mistakes” column to a single thing this year: In the spirit of the longer view, I want to use this confessional column to reach back to the early Obama years, and the arguments I made then that…
Here Are 2017’s Best Protest Posters
Jessica Hill/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The year is nearly over, and politically speaking, it hasn’t been pretty. Plenty of outrageous, terrifying, shameful things have happened since Donald Trump took office, but from the very first day of his presidency, a massive contingent of the nation has taken to the…
Here Are 10 of the Most Captivating Photo Books of the Year. Just Look.
Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This past year seems like we were treated to more photo books than ever. That is, at least in part, due to crowdfunding efforts that are helping photographers defray the exorbitant cost of publishing. The unyielding flood of photo books is evidence that photographers are still turning to the…
These 16 Major Environmental Protections Were Cut in 2017
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump has spent the past year steadily undoing Obama-era environmental protections, especially rules designed to fight climate change. By law, agencies must go through a lengthy process to rescind or rewrite many rules, but executive orders and…
Binge Drinking and Chart Geekery
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I was slightly under the weather today and had nothing better to do than noodle around on the computer, so let’s do some more chart geekery. This morning a reader sent me a link to this chart in the New York Times about binge drinking:…