Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have none. Why? BECAUSE THEY TOOK THE MONEY! There’s a canard in the twenty first century that selling out is cool, that the public expects it, that there are economic advantages and no damage is done to your career. This is patently untrue. I’m completely disillusioned with what is going […]

Now that’s a rock star. You remember rock stars, don’t you? Probably not if you’re a millennial or younger. Rock stars were musicians who channeled the truth, who stood up to corporations and bad behavior around the world. They were explicit, not complicit. And they and their messages were so powerful that money rained down […]

Mandates work. That’s the story this week. Fewer than 1% of United Airlines employees refused to get vaccinated when told they needed to get the jab to keep their jobs. That’s right, out of 67,000 employees, only 593 refused to get the shot. Two months ago, only 70% of the airline’s employees were vaccinated, now […]

Nothing can convince them to get the shot. The most important article you can read this week is this: “Our constitutional crisis is already here”: https://wapo.st/3zQXgtI It’s no longer behind a paywall, but it wasn’t really written for non-subscribers. In this essay neoconservative Robert Kagan tells us to be afraid, very afraid. That the train […]