Elizabeth talking about the Inside Game (start at 14:30), and playing it quite well as well. As you watch, look for the layers; notice what she's doing (at 20:50 for example) from her own insider position.by Gaius PubliusIt's conventional wisdom at this point that Sanders has the "white liberal" vote in his pocket, or at least the subset of "liberals" who are in the so-called Warren wing of the party.
From a 2011 report by The Independent. Click to enlarge.by Gaius PubliusInteresting headline, yes? I have a two-point intro and then the piece. First, when a "private" group's chief individuals flow back and forth constantly between government and that group, the group can be said to be "part" of government, or to have "infiltrated" government, or to have been "folded into" government.
by Gaius PubliusShort and sweet. Alan Grayson has a comfortable lead over Patrick Murphy in the Democratic race for Florida's open Senate seat (tentatively mid-March 2016).
Current drought status in the U.S. Note the color-coded legend in the lower-right portion of the graphic (source; click to enlarge)by Gaius PubliusI started to write a piece about a nice BillMoyers.com write-up of a good set of feature (and media-interactive) reports at ProPublica.
The Sanders surge is about Sanders, not Clinton. Click to enlarge.by Gaius PubliusWe know that Sanders is gaining in many polls, and that some are attributing his rise to a growing "anyone but Clinton" mood among Democrats. Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com disagrees.Data first, via Silver:
"America" from West Side Story. According to YouTube, this appears to be from one of the more recent Broadway Broadway performances. (Full movie scene at the end of this piece.)by Gaius PubliusBecause of the coverage of Greece and its debt problems, I've been fielding a lot of questions about Puerto Rico and its debt problems as well. Puerto Rico's problems aren't the same as the Greeks' though; similar, but not matching. For one thing, Puerto Rico is a territory of the U.S. and subject to some unique-to-itself U.S. laws.
Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (source)by Gaius PubliusThis is yet another piece about Greece, much shorter, but long on irony served cold.
Jane Wyatt, formerly of Father Knows Best, as Spock's mother Amanda Grayson in the original Star Trek series. Does this mean Spock and Alan Grayson are future relatives? by Gaius PubliusJust a short piece on the stay-at-home phenomenon among Democratic voters. Many of us have written about it, including myself, as a rejection of the wealth-serving direction of the mainstream of the party.
