Google Maps is a mindbender. The GPS technology is accurate because it relies on other smartphone users. When it spots a traffic jam, it reroutes you to avoid the delay. But if it tells everyone to switch routes, doesn’t that contradict the whole point?
The 41st president is dead and the usual hagiography and crime-scrubbing is upon us. But millions of victims demand justice, or at least remembrance. Bush was a monster and a prick. We should never forget that.
Victims who were displaced by the wildfires in California are being told that they are going to have to wait at least three months in order to receive any kind of housing shelter. Yet the United States and California have hundreds of thousands of vacant units, hotel rooms, and second vacation homes. Why can’t we use any of those? Well, we could. But there are good reasons not to.
The Congress that emerged from the 2018 midterm elections is by most measures the most diverse in terms of identity politics of any Congress in American history. There are over 100 women. One out of five members is a member of a racial or ethnic minority. But what difference does it really make to ordinary Americans?
The Trump Administration’s CIA has determined what the rest of the world has known for many weeks: the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohamed bin Salman, ordered the brutal murder and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. It has long been clear the Donald Trump hasn’t wanted to do anything about it. Now he says that we need Saudi Arabia to fight Iran. In other words, use worse guys to fight bad guys?
Three things are certain: death, taxes and the rehabilitation of Republican presidents by liberals who used to hate them. Bear that in mind while you consider current attitudes toward Donald Trump.
Donald Trump’s insult tweets follow a familiar pattern of outrage followed by numbness. And the slime always manages to linger
Mark Penn writes that Hillary Clinton will run again for president, but this time as a Bernie-style progressive. Will the third time be a charm or a curse?
So now the Democrats have taking back the House of Representatives, the question is, what will they do? They can’t pass any legislation but they can use their subpoena power to hold a lot of hearings and yell a lot. And of course, try to get Donald Trump’s taxes released. Is this really why people lined up on election day?
Predictably, after the 2018 midterm elections resulted in a split decision between a House of Representatives controlled by Democrats and a Senate and the White House controlled by Republicans, pundits decried the fact that split government would mean that very little would get done. Considering who the president is, is that really a bad thing?
