His book tour has sparked a lot of Biden-for-President speculation. It gets a cold shower from the New Republic’s Alex Shephard, who looks askance at the idea. Really askance:
To be fair, he probably could beat Trump, but that’s only because it looks like any Democrat could beat Trump. So why should Democrats settle for Joe Biden, an Iraq War–voting, crime bill–authoring, financial services–coddling septuagenarian?
Well, that’s nitpicking, innit?
Gotta confess I didn’t pay much attention to the Meek Mill story unfolding up in Philadelphia, mostly because he’s a rapper and I figured it was just a hip-hop artist in legal trouble — ho-hum. Then I saw Jay-Z’s op-ed in the NYTimes and realized this is a textbook case of how the “just us” system treats millions of young African Americans. He served his sentence but it included eight years of probation, which allowed the court to send him back to prison for 2 to 4 years on the flimsiest of charges.
Don’t mean to upstage El Som’s SOTD, but this one’s fresh off of last night’s SNL, and it’s the song America needs right now.
Matt Bittle of the Delaware State News takes a comprehensive look at Delaware’s badly outdated property assessments and finds a Rehobooth Beach house that sold for $5.5 million — and an assessed value of $110,000.
The News Journal’s 20th-anniversary retrospective on the Capano case brought a few surprises, but I knew all about this reporter’s experience with the poster boy for Toxic Masculity. I’m not if sure she’s told this story publicly before; I’ll ask next time I see her.
Who’s paying Donald Trump’s legal bills? Could it be….Russia?!?! You decide!
Former labor secretary Robert Reich has a documentary out called “Saving Capitalism,” an idea that millennial Matt Rosza of Salon finds inherently conservative. Reich is on the left side of the Democratic mainstream, but today’s young liberals aren’t interested in fixing capitalism’s roof — they’re finding cracks in the foundation.
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