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Timothy Noah, David WoodPolitics, economics, domestic policy, and a smattering of culture.
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How the GOP Embraced Patent-Medicine Quackery
The stuff that put the pep in Grandma.
I can’t stop listening to “What Put the Pep in Grandma?,” a 1950 hit record by Audrey Williams, first wife of the country and western great Hank Williams:
What put the pep in Grandma
And...
The Stupid New Culture War Against Unions
A trans rights march in Lannion, France, 2017. Betcha they support overtime and a minimum wage too! Photo by Julie Missbutterflies.
I’m starting to feel nostalgic for the right’s former strategy against unions. You can still imbibe...
Beat "UNHAT DAMP NJ TODDLER."
Gone but not forgotten.
In my latest New Republic piece, I report that if you rearrange the letters removed Saturday from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (T, H, E, D, O, N, A, L, D, J, [period], T, R, U, M, P, A,...
The House's Johnson Is Leaking Discharge
Danny O’Day, pitchman for Nestlé’s Quik chocolate milk. Danny’s creator, Jimmy Nelson, reputedly chose the name because, unlike “Charlie McCarthy” or “Jerry Mahoney” (or”Mike Johnson,” come to think of it) it contained none of the Ms...
Let Us Now Praise No Longer Famous Men
Robert Coles (1928-2026) in 1978.
Obituaries for Robert Coles have skipped over what strikes me as the most interesting episode of his life, which was his time as staff psychiatrist for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee i...
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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.
Journalist and author covering war for 35 years, Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for a series on the Americans grievously wounded in war. Website: davidwood-journalist.com
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