The Blue-Collar Democrat Who Wants to Fix the Party’s Other Big Problem
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez flipped a rural red district to get to Congress. Now she wants to help her party do more of the same.
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******** You Might be a Late Bloomer
The life secrets of those who flailed early but succeeded by old age
********* [The Washington Post] Rural voters don’t trust Biden. Do progressives even care?
Rural voters don’t trust Biden. Do progressives even care?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/26/rural-democratic-vote-problem/
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*********** Reaganomics Is on Its Last Legs
Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods mark the decisive rejection of an economic orthodoxy that dominated American policy making for nearly half a century.
*** How to Keep Watch
Capturing reality is harder than it seems.
******* NYTimes.com: There’s a Reason Trump Has Friends in High Places
There’s a Reason Trump Has Friends in High Places
Even the weak regulatory grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/opinion/trump-business-capitalism-democracy.html?smid=em-share
******** NYTimes.com: How Capitalism Went Off the Rails
How Capitalism Went Off the Rails
Easy money destroyed the basis for productive, competitive markets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/opinion/capitalism-inflation.html?smid=em-share
******** The Washington Post] How a long, debt-loving bipartisan consensus has warped U.S. business
Ruchir Sharma’s new book reveals the ill effects from the government’s cheap-money policies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/19/sharma-what-went-wrong-capitalism/
**** NYTimes.com: Political Scientists Want to Know Why We Hate One Another This Much
Political Scientists Want to Know Why We Hate One Another This Much
What does the rise of partisan sectarians portend for the rest of us?
****** Revenge of the Brits
British editors are suddenly leading several U.S. publications. Can it last?