well, all of us engaging with you here are most likely 'high information' citizens. only a couple of 10s of percent (if that) fit that category. what's an effective way to engage with 'everyone else' on these complicated fiascos (like this shutdown, which is pops and whistles to most people?)

wow, thank you so much! this was pretty convincing...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

is that the TAR model (trillionaire above replacement)?

OK...then what is the negotiation to end the shutdown? 'Stop that lawless authoritarianism'? The problem with any minority party tactic is that in the end, they don't have the votes. I don't like how this all happened (like everyone else!), but it has been clarified that Repub. own the ACA debacle.

Republicans are not insulated, they own the ripup of the ACA, which is going to affect millions of people. Democrats do not have the votes to restore funding to the ACA (yet). It is a long game, unfortunately.

Do Democrats have the votes to pass a budget with ACA credits, including enough to override a Trump veto? No they don't. In fact, they are the minority party in the house and senate. (Amazing that this needs to be said.) Let Republicans continue to own this destruction of the ACA, it's their issue.

axios. often a poor source.

I'm sorry to report that this 'article' is actually a dialogue between two anti-feminist women about why their version of anti-feminism is the correct one. R.Douhat is simply the moderator. don't ask me to explain their stances, their sentances are nearly impossible to parse. I gave up halfway.

sorry to say I read about half of this. required a lot of concentration to parse what these people were uttering, and I am still not sure what I read. I think what is going on here is that these two women have two DIFFERENT views of anti-feminism, which is incredible to consider. pretty depressing.

I can feel something poking me, and honestly it hurts a lot, but I really haven't had time to look down to see what is happening.

the administration did not 'link' anything. they made up an absurd lie and said it was the truth. big, big difference.

another banger, keep 'em coming...

very well played indeed.

here's what candidates are up against...read www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/ for more delightful examples.

best of luck!

I thought this was a Christopher Guest parody at first, wow.

And it took the equivalent energy of powering 1000 houses for a year to make it.

In the case of Intel, alternative is that the CEO takes pay of $0, and the 20,000 people are not laid off...instead, they all work for one year for $69M/20K = $3450. Is that the proposal?

The math does not work out. CEOs earn a lot of money, but if they earn $0, that does not create worker utopia.

and yet, there's zero impression of being rushed. all that happened is that a question was asked. 974th person in a row that should have declined an interview with Mr. Chotiner.