"Polls show that in at least eight countries, including Chile, security is the dominant voter concern, driving many Latin Americans to demand iron-fisted measures and show a greater tolerance for tough-on-crime policies." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/w...

“The Biden staff, they ruined any type of good library for him,” Mr. Morgan said. “He’ll be lucky to have a bookmobile.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

The New York City subway is one of the most functional transit systems in the United States -- and yet this kind of extreme violence is routine. Citizens and politicians in any other rich country wouldn't tolerate it.

Extremely sad and totally preventable with an existing (safe and effective) vaccine. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

Crime and antisocial behavior are two areas where the gap between stated and revealed preferences is enormous.

Deploying the National Guard to assist with urban security is perhaps one issue on which I diverge from many progressives. Donald Trump forcing the Guard on communities that don't want it is bad, but tapping it for support is fine. Democratic governors in New Mexico and New York have both done so.

Why is DC's WMATA one of the most successful transit systems in the country right now? Service has been improved, yes, but it's also been flooded with police, private security, and National Guard members.

This is at least the 5th violent incident on the NYC subway in the last 7 days or so. Any of these incidents would’ve been considered a major scandal in, say, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Sydney, or any other major city of the world. Progressives can’t turn a blind eye to transit disorder. A real concern!

“She said she had never gambled until she downloaded casino apps during the pandemic.” Lockdowns were a social disaster. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

One of Joe Biden's major failures -- alongside immigration and inflation -- was not responding quickly and aggressively to the crime wave that swept the nation from 2021 through 2023. At a bare minimum, he could have used the bully pulpit to push cities to address post-Floyd policing pullbacks.

"In a statement, Mayor Daniel Lurie said that keeping San Francisco safe is his top priority, and he pointed to efforts to increase law enforcement staffing and to the city’s full classes of recruits." www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

Extremely disturbing attack. "She looked down and her pants were starting to burn off her body. She started screaming. They didn’t rob her. They didn’t take anything from her. This was a random person in the park who went out of their way to disfigure another human being."

Opinion: How adding an Airbnb is akin to a demolition www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/11/o...

Today Austria inaugurated the Koralmbahn, offering a more direct route between Vienna and the Italian border and putting all its major southern cities on a single line. It's designed for 250 km/h, like most HSR segments in Austria.

The Antitrust Case Against Airbnb www.thesling.org/the-antitrus...

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board attacks European welfare state spending at the same time as American families are spending about $30,000 a year on health insurance premiums (for high-deductible plans).

America right now if Democrats had nominated Pete Buttigieg in 2020 instead of Joe Biden.

Identity-pilled Democrats keep flipping around in circles and sometimes deciding that all it takes to be electable is to find a white man — should actually select from the wide range of proven swing state winners. www.slowboring.com/p/gavin-news...

Gavin Newsom is the 2028 front-runner and that’s bad substack.com/home/post/p-...

The United States honestly needs a dramatic expansion of quality-of-life policing (yes, alongside improved social policies).

Immigrant students experience more bullying as ICE raids cause ‘culture of fear’, says survey www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's so refreshing to listen to Pete Buttigieg speak.

Good messaging. Hopefully Texas Democrats choose wisely.

Phoebe Memorial, the sole hospital in Albany, GA, was founded on the idea that all patients be treated, regardless of their ability to pay. So why do some residents — including many hospital staffers — turn to a free clinic for care? THREAD 🧵

We'd likely be in the second term of Pete Buttigieg, Liz Warren, or Bernie Sanders right now if Joe Biden hadn't run in 2020 (when his cognitive decline was already obvious). Biden boosters displayed poor judgment and we should probably not privilege their analysis when thinking about 2026 and 2028.

Trump administration may seek to demolish the HUD headquarters, among several other major federal structures in DC.

F.A.A. Chief Failed to Divest Airline Holdings as Promised, Ethics Agency Says www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

What is the "something"? Does Kamala Harris genuinely care about any major public policy issues?

"It’s not just practical to moderate in order to win elections; there is also a moral responsibility to be accountable and responsive to voters." www.theargumentmag.com/p/mamdanis-m...

👀 hechingerreport.org/immigration-...

$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/o...

Interesting drone video of the Verona-Vicenza HSR. Most of the civils and the roadbed are completed. Tracklying and OLE installation have started in multiple points. Works started in 2020 and the line is expected to open in December 2026. youtu.be/gl_EcjA1iAc?...

NEW Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue those cases.

"Unlike the United States and some European neighbors defined by tough immigration stances, [Spain] has projected an image of itself as the West’s new melting pot. It has embraced immigrants, especially Latin Americans who speak Spain’s language, share its religion and understand its culture."

An ‘AstroTurf Recruitment Process’: National Republicans Propped Up Jasmine Crockett to Push Her Into a Senate Run www.notus.org/senate/jasmi...

Stephen Miller’s Stock Sale Raises Questions, Ethics Experts Say www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

"The current asylum framework was created for another era. In a world with mass mobility, yesterday’s answers do not work. We will always protect those fleeing war and terror – but the world has changed and asylum systems must change with it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

It’s Not Racist to Not Want To Lose an Election www.theamericansaga.com/p/its-not-ra...

The American electorate is historically old and getting older. Seniors' growing clout will be a defining feature of our politics in the coming decades. Already, it is leading states to shift tax burdens from the old to the young www.vox.com/politics/471...

“A study of nearly 200,000 California schoolchildren found that their mental health had improved significantly after schools reopened for in-person learning in 2021, evidence that its authors said shows that the risks of prolonged shutdowns were greater than policymakers understood at the time.”

Seems bad to have said this if you're running for the Senate from Texas. Maybe don't nominate this person. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

Just as crazy as Joe Biden running for reelection -- selfish, narcissistic, and irresponsible.

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Yikes.

Joe and Jill Biden have some ownership of this.

Why do you want Mamdani to “beat the NYPD”? Center-left and socialist mayors in Mexico, France, Italy, and England have hired more police — and praised them — because safety is a public good, and the poor can’t afford doormen and private security guards. Toxic. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"They’re pulling all the starter homes off of the market in low-income, high-minority-density neighborhoods," George McCarthy, the president of the Lincoln Institute, told me—a trend that is intensifying the country’s yawning racial wealth and homeownership gaps. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I've said before that student journalism very positively shapes campus cultures in the US. For example, imagine having 5% as much information as this story provides about UVa's failed provost search about any search process for any leader, at any UK university www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Youth realignment cancelled youthpoll.yale.edu/fall-2025-re...