Each week I share the articles and essays that I found most interesting, annoying, challenging, or important. Hope that you check them out too.
| Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South by Alan Elrod in The Bulwark at https://www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-democracy-american-south-vance-bourbons |
| Sex, Drinking and Dementia: 25 Lawmakers Spill on What Congress Is Really Like by POLITICO in POLITICO at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/07/lawmakers-spill-what-congress-is-really-like-00205491 Good to know they are just about all as cynical as I expected. |
| Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again by Sherrod Brown in The New Republic at https://newrepublic.com/article/192078/democrats-become-workers-party-sherrod-brown Sherrod Brown is basically the man. That he lost his seat was a tremendous loss for the country. He is right on here, Democrats need to re-discover what they used to be and stop placating donors and identity groups. Class politics ARE identity politics. |
| Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again. by Michael Tomasky in The New Republic at https://newrepublic.com/post/192464/donald-trump-tariffs-flip-flop-economic-idiot Watching Trump attack my home country, Canada is tough. Watching his set fire to the entire American economic advantage is just sad. |
| There’s No Hope for a Party That Hates Its Own Base by jacobin.com in jacobin.com at https://jacobin.com/2025/03/democratic-party-trump-resistance-leadership A more radical version of Sherrod Brown’s argument. I have a love-hate with Jacobin. Love the position, often think they do more to alienate would be allies in how they do it. |
| Why Donald Trump embraced Andrew Tate by Jill Filipovic in New Statesman at https://www.newstatesman.com/world/americas/north-america/us/2025/03/why-donald-trump-embraced-andrew-tate |
| Trump 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by John Podhoretz in Commentary Magazine at https://www.commentary.org/articles/john-podhoretz/trump-2-good-bad-ugly/ I find John Podhoretz pretty silly most of the time. But I read this in the interests of trying to see conservative acceptance of Trump and his policy goals from their perspective. I still think Podhoretz and those like him are captured by bias and will live to regret it, but there it is. |
| “He Finally Shot the Hostage”: Trump’s Trade War Is a Brutal Reality Check by Victoria Guida in POLITICO at https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/04/trump-trade-war-tariffs-recession-00211112 |
| MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis by Thomas Zimmer in substack.com at https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/maga-feeding-frenzy-has-caused-a?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true |
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