If there are no retirement benefits, only the independently wealthy can serve in elected office. We need to jack up politicians' salaries in exchange for placing stocks in blind trusts, much more stringent ethics rules, and lifetime lobbying bans

I’ve been a bartender for 7 years—all different kinds or restaurants, all over the country. I’ve worked at two places with barista set ups and I get anxiety with anything more complex than black coffee or hot tea

Can’t really blame her. It worked for JD Vance

When politics doesn't pay well, only the independently wealthy can participate

Someone once said they thought I was cute on there, and all I could think was “would be nice to know who you are”

I was 13 in 2008, so my political consciousness is pretty much entirely formed by the white-lash against Barack Obama. I know that it was different in the past, but this is pretty much the only environment I know

"A republic, if you can keep it." The "if you can keep it" part has been doing a lot of work over the last decade. Small-r republicanism is not a spectator sport, and I think too many of us forgot that until now. Martin O'Malley was right: there is no such thing as a spare American

Turns out when you baste your brain in Nazi juices all the wrinkles smooth out and you get a job working for Bari Weiss

The Lincoln Project guys have been pretty pro-Mamdani (perhaps not effusively, but tactically). Check out the Bulwark

History will not look kindly on people who can't imagine anything worse than losing an election–the electorate can, most politicians cannot

Every single boomer male rabbi somehow. Was it a required course at HUC?