by jpitney | Jan 31, 2024 | Bureaucracy, California Politics, Environment
Dan Walters at CalMatters enumerates California government’s many dysfunctional projects and adds two to the list. California received $800 million from a settlement with German carmaker Volkswagen over its cheating on pollution emission testing and has spent...
by jpitney | Jan 30, 2024 | Civility, Debate, Deliberation
From The Harvard Gazette: The original framework for American democracy was hammered out amid heated disagreement and rigorous debate. Now, in this period of hardening political and social schisms, what’s hampering progress isn’t that we disagree, but how we do it or...
by jpitney | Jan 29, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists
Jack Shafer at Politico: It would be far too dramatic to extrapolate from the disastrous week that journalism itself is dying. The New York Times is healthy. Thanks to good management and demographically vigorous readerships, the Boston Globe and Minneapolis Star...
by jpitney | Jan 28, 2024 | Insurrection
Jada Yuan at WP: In “War Game,” a new documentary from Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber, these men are members of the Order of Columbus, an extremely religious, paramilitary organization that refuses to accept the results of a contested presidential election. This is not...
by jpitney | Jan 27, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists
Todd Spangler at Variety: In the latest wave of layoffs to hit the digital media biz, Business Insider said it will cut 8% of its staff in a restructuring aimed at positioning the company for growth. Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng announced the job cuts in a memo...
