As the Marx Brothers said, there ain't no sanity clause--but these are my latest thoughts about politics, policy, culture, books and other stuff.
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Two Dumb Dems
There was a moment, a few weeks ago, when I thought the Dems might win the Senate in 2026. They still might—anything is possible—but the mood has changed in two of the more juicy races, in Maine and Texas. Both feature vulnerable Republican...
"In order to..."
Greetings from London, a favorite place (especially for Sanity Goddess), though I’m not feeling all that jolly. In fact, I find myself very much, and only semi-explicably, in the dumps. Great to be here, of course; there are things to do, f...
Trumpyrrhic
Donald Trump just keeps winning. He has won his way to the lowest popularity of his presidency. He has won so many primary elections—in Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana—that his Republican Party is furling itself into a cult. It’s the reverse o...
The Iran Nutcracker
This Iran “excursion” must be driving Donald Trump crazier. He has a need for immediacy, for results, for news, for “winning,” but he has on his hands a stalemate or worse, as the (former?) Neoconservative Robert Kagan, suggests in The Atla...
The Boy Problem
Nellie Bowles on the Pacific Palisades arsonist:
The man who prosecutors say started the fire is Jonathan Rinderknecht, who was 29 when he was arrested last October. In a court filing, prosecutors wrote: “Many of defendant’s Uber passeng...
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