Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

I think liberals should accept that if we want big programs that significantly reduce inequality - and we should - it's going to require higher taxes on everyone. The rich can certainly do more, especially given their stupendous income increases since the Reagan era, but they can't do it all.

The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn’t rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.

Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.

I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got discouraged when it didn't pan out.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.