Death of democracy redux?
"\"TweetShareShareI’m always a bit laggard in my New Yorker reading and typically fall weeks or months behind — so it is when one’s New Yorker reading is done mainly while brushing one’s teeth and facilitating biological...
One story, two stories: the fictions of Fox News
"\"TweetShareShareWhat you think depends on what you read or watch. This applies broadly: a romance reader will see the world somewhat differently than a lover of thrillers, both by instinct and through the influence of what feeds their brains....
Impeach Trump: what’s the downside, really?
"\"TweetShareSharePeople who despise Trump will continue to despise Trump.\\nPeople who somehow don\\u2019t despise Trump will continue to somehow not despise...
What you can learn from Michael Avenatti
"\"TweetShareShareIf she’s going to do the story with or without you, and you’re not going to look good either way, you’re better off talking to the...
These colors are bleeding
"\"TweetShareShareWatching as the Trump Administration and Senate leaders pander to those rare Republican holdouts is one part entertaining (The Florida senator Trump once insulted, repeatedly, as \\u201cLittle Marco\\u201d can now hold the...
Top 10 things I’m doing during the first 100 days
"\"TweetShareShare10. Memorizing the lyrics to the Beatles song, \\u201cOb-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.\\u201d 9. Writing a long essay on the Hamlet-Bojack Horseman linkages. 8. Issuing executive orders around the house, principally to the dog. 7....
The arrogance of ignorance
"TweetShareShareIt\u2019s become accepted in many quarters to associate the wielding of facts or knowledge with arrogance. Typically the term is applied to political liberals \u2013 coastal elites, the blue-state bloviators, whatever one might cal...
Regs not the problem for oil business
"TweetShareShareThe incoming Trump administration and the oil and gas industry like to talk about the burdens of environmental red tape. But in Deloitte\u2019s \u201creality check\u201d of the top six issues facing the oil and gas industry in 2015...
For open primaries (and maybe avoiding the next Trump)
"\"TweetShareShareMy wife and I got a letter from a woman named Laura Chauncey Mullins the other day, from 574 S. Broadway Blvd.\\u00a0in\\u00a0Denver. The addresses, both the return and ours, had been mail-merged onto standard Avery stickers....
A new political vocabulary for a new political reality
"TweetShareShareAs this 2016 presidential race has shown, 21st century America could use\u00a0a new political vocabulary. We need some shiny new words, ones capable of capturing the subtleties and not-so-subtleties of candidate as well as voter be...
Donald Trump and the O.J. Simpson playbook
"\"TweetShareShareDonald Trump is coming to our Denver Lowry neighborhood today, to a rally at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum. Denver. A buddy of mine joked that we should maybe build a wall around the neighborhood. I said maybe...
Brain Bar Budapest via blog posts
"\"TweetShareShareAn old friend of mine touched base a couple of months back, wondering if I’d like to do some writing for Brain Bar Budapest. My first question was: for Brain-what? As freelancers tend to do, I said yes. They were looking...