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The new centrist push to regain control of the Democratic Party, with corporate money

There are two maps on this page. The one at the top should be familiar. It's one of those red-state/blue-state maps that have been tormenting Democrats, liberals, and progressives since November of 2000. Over the 36 days that George W. Bush and Al Gore fought for the White House in Florida, "red" and "blue" became metaphors for America's divided electorate. Red vs. Blue—Democrat vs. Republican; liberal vs. conservative; pro-life vs. pro-choice; gun-huggers vs. gun-haters; gay-huggers...

Dan Savage joins me on Volts to discuss how NIMBY-captured city leadership is failing Democrats — and why making cities better is the key to building the party’s future.

At Reason, C.J. Ciaramella (“Tim Scott Says UAW Workers Should Be Fired, Invoking Ronald Reagan”) gives GOP Presidential hopeful Tim Scott two stars for his proposal to fire striking auto workers like Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers and broke PATCO: “He said, you strike, you’re fired. Simple concept to me. To the extent that...

Learn about Tactical Civics, a national small-government group introduced to Spokane County by conservative activist Chris McIntosh.

Agustín Barrios Gómez is business leader and politican who found there was no better place in the world to succeed than in Mexico.

An Everyone Culture argues that organizations do best when they build an environment that encourages constant personal development among their employees.

The condition we are observing in the body politic is Constitutional Derangement Syndrome. There have been various documented executive derangement syndrome episodes in recent history. This conditi…

She had died for something

No.334 — Amulets against the spirits of the age ⊗ On distortion ⊗ Build your own commissioner ⊗ Liquid AI

My advice to any writer looking to start a new site based on the newsletter model would be to consider Substack *last*, not first.

Forget the ridiculous "Twitter Files." This is what it actually looks like when a social media company works in concert with the government.

From Robert Caro’s The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974): By building his highways, Moses flooded the city with ca...

When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool. He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top.

WIRED takes a look at one of Silicon Valley’s most influential ideologies.

This is the first time Russia has used its so-called Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in combat. The launch also serves as a warning to the West.

New dataset identifies the causes of today’s wealth gap

Dionysius the Areopagite was an Athenian judge at the Areopagus Court in Athens, who lived in the first century. A convert to Christianity, he is venerated as a saint by multiple denominations.

Autocephaly and canonicity recognized by Constantinople and 3 other autocephalous Churches:

A recent investigation by Tracking Exposed shows that Glovo’s subsidiary in Italy, Foodinho, registers couriers’ off-shift location and shares it with unauthorized parties. The delivery app provider has also been found to have created a “hidden” credit score for their riders.

Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of

In 2022, the Council on Foreign Relations warned, “Income and wealth inequality in the United States is substantially higher than in almost any other

When the White House welcomed Microsoft’s offer of $150 million in tech services, it helped the world’s largest software provider tighten its grip on federal business and freeze out competitors.

Gary King, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E. Roberts. 2017. “How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument.” American Political Science Review, 111, 3, Pp. 484-501.

Sophia Parnok (1885-1933) was born in Taganrog, Russia—Anton Chekhov’s hometown, on the sea of Azov—two decades or so before her country exploded. Born into...