Over Thanksgiving week, the talk of the economically focused internet was a viral essay claiming, absurdly, that the real poverty line in America for a family of four is $140,000 a year ... I doubt the author, an asset manager named Michael W ... .
When Donald Trump’s approval ratings dropped sharply last April, the wound was essentially self-inflicted and the prescription relatively simple. Dial it back ... The administration did chill out, to some degree ... .
In one scenario for the pop cultural future, soon we’ll have movies without movie stars ... Now here’s an alternative vision of the future. We might have stars without the movies ... The career of SydneySweeney seems like a foretaste of the second future ... .
Today, Ross Douthat argues that Zohran Mamdani has probably peaked, like a rider of the Cyclone it's probably all downhill from here ... Mamdani's best outcome, according to Douthat, is that the complete ...