The Lions are the best team in the NFL (advanced stats rate them as the best team since the 2007 Patriots at this point the season) and Donald Trump has just been elected president for a second time. Growing up in Michigan in the 1970s...
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I haven't done a comprehensive search, but this map suggests that I'm at this moment located in the third-most Democratic-shifting county in the 2024 presidential election, relative to 2020, out.
That man is also about to become the nation's chief public health official: From claims about brain worms to the bear-cub controversy, Kennedy was the subject of, and admitted to,.
Ireland has an election on Friday. LGM commenter MacK provides an overview of the Irish electoral system: The system was devised at independence because of the existence of a sizeable minority – unionist, many protestant who in a straightforward first-past-the-post electoral system would be very...
That was the conclusion of this particular evaluative process put together by Vanity Fair: Created by Matthew Weiner, Mad Men starred Jon Hamm as suave and troubled ’60s-era ad man Don Draper. It first aired.
Stocks are up this morning, after the president-elect promised last night to start a major trade war with all America's top trading partners. The standard explanation for anything like this.
Pretty interesting discussion (gift link) among four NYT columnists about what Trump II is going to look like. Lydia Polgreen: For me, the most significant development is what seems to be a broad infrastructure built to ensure fealty, not just to Trump but to a...
I've been thinking about cognitive failure of various kinds a lot lately, and I ran into this case. Note that this involved an 180-mile flight pretty much due north to.
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Scott and I are going to keep posting about this until they stop. The New Yorker gets in on the RFK sanewashing: The trouble—and the opportunity—with Kennedy is that, although.
Jill Filipovic points out that the prevalence of accused sexual assaulters in the Trump administration, starting of course at the very top, is not a coincidence: Of the more than two dozen Cabinet and staff members Trump has nominated, there are nearly as many accused...
This is an absolutely mind-blowing survey of 1,000 Americans, with their responses weighted to make the survey group reflect a nationally representative population. Respondents were asked to estimate what percentage.
This post is about a mystery wrapped inside of an enigma, which LGM has been deputized to crowdsource. The mystery is: Who is Jolin Ellison? Yesterday, the #1 recruit in.