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There’s something about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. First, an Eddie Scarry tweet about how her clothing and bag “don’t look like a girl who struggles” got ratioed like few before it. Then a CNBC tweet meditating on the less than $7,000 in…
President Donald Trump’s public comments regularly reveal him to be unsuited to hold the most powerful office in the world, both temperamentally and intellectually. But nothing of late has made that quite as clear as the new White House statement…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) have a new plan to bring down American drug prices, and it sure looks a lot like a recent proposal from President Trump. The Sanders-Khanna legislation, released on Tuesday, attacks two…
Finding the best ways to do good. Made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation. The devastating Camp Fire has raged for two weeks now, and by the latest estimates killed 81 people and destroyed more than 150,000 acres of land. The…
This isn’t about age. At least it’s not entirely about age. Admittedly, a number of years have passed since I began travelling the New York subway on a reduced-fare MetroCard for senior citizens—what I have always referred to as a…
With “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” adorning a handful of theatres as well as computers everywhere, thanks to its Netflix release, it’s a good week to recommend another Coen brothers film to stream, namely their best—“The Big Lebowski,” alas. “Alas”…
