What Happened to College Basketball? (nymag.com)
House Republicans: No Aid for Israel Unless Rich Tax Cheats Get a Break (nymag.com)
Mike Johnson’s Election Denial Should Raise Alarms for 2024 (nymag.com)
What Happens When Ads Generate Themselves? (nymag.com)
Banning Palestinian Flags Is Just the Beginning for Sports (nymag.com)
Banning Palestinian Flags Is Just the Beginning for Sports (nymag.com)
Trump’s Economic Message Is Fool’s Gold for Swing Voters (nymag.com)
Trump’s Economic Message Is Fool’s Gold for Swing Voters (nymag.com)
The Most Incoherent Conservative Take on Israel Yet (nymag.com)
Trump Is Actually Guilty of the Kind of Bribery Republicans Imagine Biden Did (nymag.com)
Republicans Started a Civil War They Don’t Know How to End (nymag.com)
House Republicans haven’t been terribly successful at many things this year. They struggled to keep the government open and to keep the United States from defaulting on its debt. They’ve even struggled at times on basic votes to keep the chamber functioning. But they have been very good at one thing: regicide....
What If There’s No House Speaker for a Month? For a Year?! (nymag.com)
Spotify Is Eating the Entire Music Business (nymag.com)
An Egregious NYPD Cover-up Poses a Moral Test for Eric Adams (nymag.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/an-egregious-nypd-cover-up-pose…
Stats Don’t Back Up Republicans’ Crime-Wave Rhetoric (nymag.com)
All in all, GOP fearmongering about crime parallels the party’s inflation alarms based on selective and outdated numbers. It can be effective, unfortunately; during 2022, Gallup found that 78 percent of Americans thought crime was higher nationally than in 2021. Turns out that just wasn’t the case.
Everything I Use to Heal My Skin After Picking (nymag.com)
The U.S. Is Giving Israel Permission for War Crimes (nymag.com)
The article accuses Israel of potentially committing war crimes in its conflict with Hamas, focusing on a siege on Gaza, airstrikes harming civilians, and evacuation orders. It criticizes the U.S. for not condemning Israel’s actions and emphasizes the need for diplomatic solutions. The piece argues that Israel’s approach...
Trump Manages to Make Israel Attack All About Him (nymag.com)
Trump’s remarks do make sense once you realize he’s a narcissist devoid of empathy who can’t help but praise the side he thinks is “winning.” But yes, it still is kind of shocking that a person like that was president and has a good shot at being reelected.
Netanyahu Is Losing the War at Home (nymag.com)
A Left That Refuses to Condemn Mass Murder Is Doomed (nymag.com)
Netanyahu Is Losing the War at Home (nymag.com)
Why NASA Wants Your UFO Videos (nymag.com)
NY Mag interviewed Dr. David Spergel, head of the panel that provided the recent NASA report on UAP and apparently former classmate of David Duchovny… The questions touch on the events the panel reviewed, concerns over pseudo-science, and the need for more data....
Running Spoiler Campaigns Does Not Protect ‘Democracy’ (nymag.com)
Most Americans who oppose Donald Trump agree the threat to democracy is the major issue of the 2024 election. But what, precisely, constitutes the threat? To most Democrats, the danger is that the election will install into power a president who admires autocratic regimes and wishes to replicate their methods by encouraging...
Why Don’t Republicans Just Run on the Economy, Stupid? (nymag.com)
The News Media Is Not Trying to Elect Trump - The mainstream media isn’t, at least. (nymag.com)
In my younger years, I had a more materialist view of the world (meaning not that I cared about owning material possessions but that I attributed people’s beliefs and actions principally to their economic interests). Over time, I have come to put more weight on conviction, and less on self-interest, to explain why people do...
