“If at one point the FASFA overhaul was neither a money nor a management issue, it is now both, and students will continue to suffer for it.”

Oh, so when I fight, there's 'no wrestling or hugging allowed.' But when he gets mugged, suddenly there's a whole new set of Marquess of Queensbury Rules. I see how it is.

'If Uber and Lyft had been invented in the 1930s, there would be a large, powerful Rideshare Drivers’ Union. If movies had been invented in the 2020s, the notion of an actors’ guild or a screenwriters’ union would seem absurd to most people' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

If you feel too rushed even to read this, then your life could use a change.

My latest in The Atlantic.
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Ilaria Mazzocco: “Our efforts to cut China out from every part of the supply chain might actually be what prevents us from competing with their EVs.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I wrote about how I, like Donald Trump, dozed off at court this week, and why that’s a good thing.

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The first days of the criminal case against the former president have been mundane, even boring—and that’s remarkable, George Conway writes: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

The question of Israel and Palestine must be reframed and recalibrated.
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From John Hendrickson, on the trail with Biden: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

BRILLIANT by ⁦Ziad Asali MD:⁩
The purveyors of atavistic yearnings, must be marginalized. People of goodwill, who believe in a peaceful future and prioritize a reverence for universal values over tribalism, will be the ones who bring about peace. theatlantic.com/international/…

'In other words, economics doesn’t pay enough attention to power. In the real world, corporations and consumers are rarely on equal footing. The more complex and opaque prices get, the more power shifts from buyer to seller.' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This is the article Mika Brezinski so kindly referenced on MSNBC just now. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

'All of this could have been avoided, but now it must simply be managed.'

Wendy's was just the start: I wrote about all the different ways pricing has become purposely terrible.

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Well, this is gonna be great

Why did the US, Europe and others come to the defense of Israel but not Ukraine? Some answers here:
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'Given all Trump has done, and given all we know, the claim that Joe Biden—whatever his failures, whatever his limitations, whatever his age—poses a greater threat to the republic than Donald Trump is delusional.' theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Chris Sununu just showed how deep into the Republican Party the rot has gone, Peter Wehner writes: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

RFK Jr.'s sideshow may be the defining story of 2024. My new story:
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This Elaine Godfrey piece on Gaetz is the best so far