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Timothy Noah, Thomas E. RicksPolitics, economics, domestic policy, and a smattering of culture.
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"Extreme Anchoring" And The Ghost of Roy Cohn
Roy Cohn in 1981. Photograph by Bernard Gotfryd courtesy of the Library of Congress.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s a young English teacher named Alfred Baruth, who moonlighted as a chauffeur because money was tight, would every m...
Wuxtry, Wuxtry! Trump De-Lists Cohen!
Detail from “The Meaning of Social Security” by Ben Shahn (1942) in the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Washington, D.C. Photo for the General Services administration by Carol M. Highsmith.
After burdening you earlier today with ba...
Bad Vibrations
Now I know how James Bond feels in that scene in “Goldfinger” where he wakes up to see the Bond girl in his bed has been gilded to death. Photo courtesy of WTOP.
Donald Trump’s bordellification of Washington, D.C., continues. Leo Fri...
An Old War Correspondent Admires Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey"
Christopher Nolan’s version of Homer’s man-eating giant Laestrygonians.
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Thomas E. Ricks, Backbencher’s bureau chief for Austin, Texas, and Portland, Maine. Ricks covered the military for the W...
Oligarchy En Français
Bernard Arnault in 2017.
I’m addicted to Forbes’s real-time billionaire rankings. The eight richest humans on Planet Earth are all Americans, and they’re all tech lords. The ninth, as of yesterday, was Bernard Arnault, according to F...
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Backbencher jefe; New Republic staff writer; author, "The Great Divergence." Former Politico, Slate, Wall Street Journal, US News, Washington Monthly, etc.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former military correspondent for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of 11 books, the next being, "Big Money, Small Town," a novel about the oligarchy squashing a small town in the Maine woods.
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