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1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/world/asia/china-xi-jinping.html 2. https://www.ft.com/content/fbc63376-1ab2-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6 Xi Jinping -- General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the Peoples's Republic, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, "Core"...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/justice-neil-gorsuch-is-about-to-deliver-republicans-a-big-return-on-their-investment.html This should be one of the big stories of the day. This is frightening. And remember, too, that it is for cases such as this that Republicans in Congress took...

I’d be happy to see alternative systems of electing presidents, by the way. Maybe we get rid of the electoral college. Maybe we turn to a parliamentary legislature. These are interesting, valuable conversation in their own right, but they are also not happening.  Not only is the current system...

I want to start a new thread on this because I have no idea how to feel on this topic. I'm pretty inclined to be against 'surveillance state' laws and sympathetic to the strong, even angry advocacy in this regard from corners such as The Intercept (which is born of that issue). At the same time...

https://www.themarysue.com/jim-halpert-vs-ben-wyatt/ I really enjoyed this breakdown of a specific, core aspect of two of my favorite shows. Parks and Rec is a derivative of the US version of The Office. I would argue that a lot of the differences come from P&R coming along later, and so it...

https://thebaffler.com/latest/decline-of-the-new-criterion-ganz Or: How do you go from witty reviews of books on Hegel and Kierkegaard to recommending a book by The Veritas Project’s James O’Keefe? This is a meal of an article, so I felt it deserved its own thread. Something that's really...

What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. https://thenib.com/the-good-war A powerful graphic adaption of a 2006 piece written in response to the burgeoning Forever War, then in its earlier but calcifying stages.

This is a bit of facetious nickname, and I think the criticisms of embracing Kristol are fair (liberals should not confuse him as an ally). However, I do think it's interesting to hear from highly-credentialed conservatives such as him so we can understand the ways they came to change their...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html @knapplc -- you called it. It's a game to these people. There are "elites" who are rich Ivy League graduates who genuinely care about doing the work to effect what they think is better policy...

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/04/tax-the-rich-capitalism-marx-socialism/ This was a fascinating read and I think it raises a very important point. When we talk about taxes, most of us understand the argument laid out in the 2012 election by the Obama campaign. It was something along the lines...

https://www.guidedtrack.com/programs/iumboi4/run? This quiz surveys you for your stated political leanings, and then asks a series of 14 'knowledge' questions. Afterwards, you get feedback about what biases your answers may have exposed, and you'll get to see what you answered right or wrong. ...

http://journalstar.com/opinion/letters/letter-riley-made-nu-football-fun-again/article_cf3052a6-0650-563f-950f-375b1f664c8b.html :thumbs

Something I've been thinking about a lot recently about this horrendous new tax bill is, why? For those who don't know, among its many boilerplate trademark Republican travesties of upward wealth redistribution is a provision to multiply the tax burden for doctoral students. PhD students don't...

Matt Yglesias of Vox:  I agree.

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/2/16019562/china-russia-internet-propaganda-media Some of this sounds familiar. It's certainly a(n effective) blueprint for would-be autocrats to follow.

I feel this deserves its own topic at this point. The activities of Assange, Wikileaks, their defenders and promoters. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/?utm_source=twb Extraordinary. "If we publish [a...

A bombshell dropped about Louis: https://www.thedailybeast.com/roseanne-barr-calls-out-louis-ck-ive-heard-so-many-stories Oh, that was from June 2016. The new story: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html?_r=0 The crazy thing is this was not a...

5 rec - 102 -1 TD 7 rec - 103 - 2TD 6 rec - 94 - 0 TD 8 rec - 96 - 1 TD What a start to the year. Bravo!