I am excited about the new Democratic Party Leadership.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… America has always been a wounded giant. But it has also always stumbled forward, driven by an inner turbine of ambition and aspiration that knows no rest.

Team Captains.

propublica.org/article/asbest… The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers Are Paying the Price. “It sounds like something that maybe would happen in the 1940s or the 1950s” “It’s just so counter to everything that they put in the record about using [asbestos] safely”

indiacurrents.com/stay-home-the-… Tech H1B immigrant workers laid off by tech industry face uphill battle to find new jobs in an unyielding U.S. immigration system.

So...the decision to shoot down the thing was done on Weds. We monitored it, jammed its sensors, and gained intel on its capabilities, waited until it was out range where a crash could cause civilian harm, shot it down, and this is what is causing a million MAGAs to lose it.

nytimes.com/2023/02/13/opi… No political figure better illustrates the tragic collapse of the modern Republican Party than Nikki Haley. Ms. Haley, for all her talents, embodies the utter moral failure of the GOP. No one should feel sorry for Ms. Haley. It was her choice.

President's Day - in the US and Ukraine, on the right side of history.

"Dear Evan Hansen" is marvelous. It is a deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life.

Thank you, Brian Deese Archived

One year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of Kyiv. I was in Kyiv this week, and I can report: Kyiv stands strong. Kyiv stands proud. And most importantly, it stands free.

Idiocy never sleeps nor stops. washingtonpost.com/technology/202… The right’s new culture-war target: ‘Woke AI’.

yahoo.com/news/trump-rol… The article speaks from 2018 for itself. No explanation is needed to provide context to the recent train derailment in Ohio.

The blind adherence devoid of logic is so suffocating and frustrating.

That’s about right…

The expulsion of Rahul Gandhi from parliament is a deep betrayal of Gandhian philosophy and India’s deepest values. This is not what my grandfather sacrificed years in jail for. Narendra Modi you have the power to reverse this decision for the the sake of Indian democracy.

Autocracies today are born willingly - as the general population remains distracted.

Truly the biggest con. Thank you Pankaj Mishra for writing this. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…