In the New York Times today, Jamelle Bouie fires away at moderate Democrats who, he says, derailed President Biden's agenda and are now trying to blame progressives for their own failure. I don't understand this. It's true, as Bouie says, that over the summer there was disagreement about whether to link the infrastructure bill and ...continue reading "Are Democratic moderates responsible for the party’s downfall?"
It's been a while since I took a look at the latest COVID-19 numbers, so let's do that. The powers that be have decided that the best metric is no longer cases or deaths, but hospitalizations, so here are hospitalization rates in the US plus the five biggest Western European countries: Everybody is way down ...continue reading "Raw data: The latest on the Omicron surge"
The United States is bracing for Russian cyberattacks. Authorities said potential targets include electrical grids, banking systems, and cell phone networks.
Graham Nash shares stories behind some of his most famous songs in a new episode of the Apple Music 1 podcast Deep Hidden Meaning Radio, hosted by Chic's Nile Rodgers,…