Month: January 2025

Yves here. This Tom Neuburger post finesses the question of “What is the Democratic Party?” and for good reason. Lambert gave the matter a fair bit of study and could…

There was talk of the rising number of beached whales in Massachusetts, the victim, the president-elect said, of those windmills that have been erected off the coast. They “are driving…

Against a towering backdrop of black smoke with an ominous orange glow, the stately homes and broad boulevards of the Pacific Palisades looked small and exposed on Tuesday. The fire…

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s attention returned Tuesday to an idea that has fascinated him for years: acquiring Greenland for the United States. In a news conference on Tuesday, he refused…

In November 2016, as Facebook was being blamed for a torrent of fake news and conspiracy theories swirling around the first election of Donald J. Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Hammonasset Beach SP, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. In Case You Might Miss… Trump to change “Gulf of…

Yves here. Given the willingness of far too many businesses (and one assumes government agencies) to implement at best flukey and at worst error-producing AI with a lack of adult…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, this is a travel day for me and hence an Open Thread. Talk amongst yourselves! –lambert Bird Song of the Day At IM…

Syria’s main airport handled its first international flights on Tuesday since the fall of the government of former President Bashar al-Assad last month, as the new leaders press to reassert…

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founding father of France’s modern political far-right who built a half-century career on rants of barely disguised racism, antisemitism and neo-Nazi propaganda that vilified immigrants and…