Vlad, this is Don. The AHCA is deader than Alan Thicke and Mike Flynn might be flipping. What should I do?
Maybe chillax with ugly American prostitute? I have to leave now to beat up children. Bye.
He ain’t pretty no more.
Let’s go straight to the Lincoln Bedroom.
- Trump’s yawning credibility gap is dangerous in more ways than one.
- A pathological liar as President means limits to “journalistic neutrality.”
- Chuck Barris, a schlock seller who didn’t wind up in the White House, just died.
- Simon Kuper writes of the impotence of populist revenge fantasies.
- Masha Gessen talks the increased volatility of the U.S. and Russia.
- The GOP met their Obamacare waterloo, but they’ve yet to truly be sobered.
- Paul Ryan is not a serious policy wonk, as the AHCA debacle just proved.
- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin thinks AI is no threat to workers. Wrong.
- Trump and Brexit are not proof we’re living inside a computer simulation.
- A look at computational neuroscientists who believe biology itself a fatal error.
- Dan Barry eulogizes the late, great Jimmy Breslin + a few related pieces.
- Yuval Harari fields questions on myriad topics from public figures and readers.
- Harari responds to Mark Zuckerberg’s “Building Global Community” manifesto.
- Tim Harford praises technocrats, who get the job done, more or less.
- An autocracy like China may be first to move boldly on genetic enhancement.
- Tyler Cowen argues China’s economic prominence has promoted autocracy.
- Some of our behaviors will make future peoples see as us barbaric.
- Old Print Article: Political cartoonist Thomas Nast dead in Ecuador. (1902)
- Old Print Article: Mother Divine meets her match. (1946)
- A brief note from 1936 about a nonagenarian dad.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Alexander Dugin, Walter Winchell.