Behold The Big Bend - the incredible U-shaped New York skyscraper dubbed the 'longest building in the world' is unveiled (h/t Althouse)
Yoga pants: Accusations of research fraud roil a tight-knit community of ecologists
A President’s Credibility - Trump’s falsehoods are eroding public trust, at home and abroad.
DNC Mega Donors Meet At Mandarin Oriental Hotel To Plot "The Resistance"
A Dem Resistance led by the mega-rich and big corporations
Gorsuch’s Collision Course With the Administrative State
Trump’s Budget Is An Attack On The Bureaucratic State
TOM COTTON NAILS IT ON THE AHCA
McArdle: Better Health Care for Less Money? It's Not Easy:
We aren’t a nation that has a cost-growth problem; we’re a nation that had a problem a couple of decades ago, when we failed to keep costs from outpacing the hog-wild inflation of the 1970s. Which means that we can’t even hope to get our costs down in the future, relative to other countries, by switching to a more government-driven system now, as many people have suggested when I pointed this out.
Black Oberlin students demand fried chicken on menu
And watermelon too?
Kling:
Let me repeat Josh Barro’s point that health care is 1/6th of our economy but nobody wants to spend 1/6th of their income on it. When health care spending was lower as a share of GDP, we had the luxury of setting up a system dominated by third-party payments, without the insurance companies or the government imposing difficult restrictions on what procedures could be approved or what doctors could receive in compensation. But health care spending has gotten to be too large a fraction of GDP to be handled that way. The system is bound to change, and the change is bound to feel uncomfortable to many people.
Good quote via SDA:
Nationalism was the centerpiece of the rise of liberal democracies because liberal democracy was built around the liberation of nations. Liberals in Europe and America did not deny that, but they simply could not grasp that the nation cannot exist unless the people feel a common bond that makes them distinct. The claim was that it was legitimate to have a nation, but not legitimate to love it inordinately, to love it more than other nations, to value the things that made it different, and above all, to insist that the differences be preserved, not diluted.
Europe has woman trouble
View from the left at The Week:
if America and Europe are becoming more insular to guard their welfare states, Canada is becoming more exclusive. All of this flies in the face of using the welfare state to create a "just society" full of compassion and caring communities. Indeed, in their effort to use the welfare state as a vehicle to create a new spirit of cosmopolitan socialism, liberals have only fueled a resurgence of the mean-spirited tribalism that they'd wished to purge.
Far from making all of humanity hold hands and sweetly sing kumbaya in a newfound brotherhood, welfare statists have ironically produced new fissures and divisions for nativism to prey on.
Netanyahu:
Israel ‘Perfect Partner’ for China
