I sit here once again working on the Comerado project. It's the morning of June 25, 2025. Last night, a 33-year-old New York state assembly representative named Zohran Mamdani completed a truly stunning upset in the Democratic mayoral primary for New York City, defeating the front runner, former
A shadow cabinet is a common feature of political life in other democracies. A kind of alternate vision of the present, offered by the party not currently in power, so that constituents can get an immediate sense of what the other party would do if the most recent election had
I worry America cannot survive this. “This” can mean many things. My This, for today at least, is sportsbetting. Don’t catch a tizzy; I’m aware that gambling on sports isn’t new. As far back as we can see evidence of spectator sports, we can find evidence of
I state upfront my resistance to mechanistic explanations of sociopolitical/socioeconomic circumstances. Not that none exist. But the urge to believe “X naturally leads to Y” as an explanation for any given problem is stronger than the incidence of such explanations is high. That said, consider Jeff Bezos. Consider his