by jpitney | May 11, 2024 | Economic Policy
William A. Mundell, Founder and Chairman of Work to Own, and Chairman of Neurosphere Entertainment, at Forbes: In his last published work, John Steinbeck, that great chronicler of the working class, mused that Americans never embraced socialism because the poor...
by jpitney | May 10, 2024 | Congress, Dreier, House of Representatives
As part of his deal to keep the speakership, Kevin McCarthy put three hardliners on the Rules Committee. At Puck, David Dreier told Tina Nguyen that it was a big mistake: “What McCarthy did was just so unfortunate and just so wrong,” David Dreier, a former Republican...
by jpitney | May 9, 2024 | California Politics, Congress, House of Representatives
Sarah D. Wire at LAT: Over homemade tacos at a Capitol Hill row home, several of California’s members of Congress did something unusual last year: they gathered for a bipartisan, home-cooked meal where politics were not on the menu. The table full of Republicans and...
by jpitney | May 8, 2024 | Internet, Journalism, Journalists, Mass Media, Newspapers
Joshua Benton at NIeman: Some day in the distant future, scholars looking back on the evolution (devolution?) of the American news business will consider May 6, 2024 a date worthy of note. They’ll see it as the day the most prestigious prizes in journalism reflected...
by jpitney | May 7, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives, Senate
