Judge Presses For Progress in FBI Leak CaseApril 20, 2018 at 10:39 am
A federal judge is threatening to appoint a "private prosecutor" to press a criminal investigation about FBI leaks to the press in an insider trading case. The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation in December 2016 into the leaks. But progress has been slow, or opaque, enough that Judge P. Kevin Castel of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York issued a two-page order on April 2, 2018, raising the prospect of hiring his own lawyer.
The Bezos HandstandApril 19, 2018 at 9:37 am
From the annual shareholder letter of Jeff Bezos comes this piece of business — or life — wisdom:
New Yorker Staff Writer Health InsuranceApril 18, 2018 at 9:01 am
An article in Medium by Malcolm Harris about the declining pay of freelance writers reports: "I would be remiss if I omitted that almost every person I spoke to brought up one of the industry's worst-kept secrets: New Yorker staff writers, some of the most admired journalists in the business, don't typically receive health insurance." This may help at least partly explain two things. First, the ferocity against which the New Yorker fought the possibility of repeal of ObamaCare. Second, the degree to which it relies on writers (Princeton's John McPhee; Harvard's Jill Lepore and Atul Gawande, Columbia's Adam Kirsch and Nicholas Lemann) who have additional jobs as academics and who therefore get their health insurance paid for by alumni donors or tuition-paying parents.
The Surprising Story Behind the Charles River CleanupApril 17, 2018 at 9:56 am
The renewal of the Charles River is the topic of my column this week. Please check out the column in full at the New York Sun (here) and Newsmax (here).
Elaine Kamarck on Obama's Fragile LegacyApril 16, 2018 at 1:49 pm
Clinton administration official Elaine Kamarck — now affiliated with the Brookings Institution and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government — has a review of Julian Zelizer's edited volume The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment. She writes:
Kerry DownsizesApril 15, 2018 at 5:05 pm
The Nantucket house of Democratic politician John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry has sold for $17,500,000 after being originally listed at $25 million, the Boston Globe reports. They bought a place on Martha's Vineyard last year for $11,750,000. It is worth remembering the next time someone makes fun of Donald Trump for having fancy personal real estate yet purporting to champion the common man.
Kudlow on GrowthApril 13, 2018 at 9:42 am
From a New York Times news article about an interview with the new director of the National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow:
Prosecutor In Cohen Raids Worked For Trump's BankApril 13, 2018 at 6:13 am
A New York Times article on federal prosecutors' raids of the offices of a lawyer for President Trump, Michael Cohen, reports:
Trump Scooter Libby PardonApril 13, 2018 at 5:26 am
With President Trump reportedly set to pardon I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, it may be worth revisiting my column from September 2017, which mentioned Libby and also Sholom Rubashkin, whose sentence was later commuted by Trump. It's nice to see the president working his way through that list.
Paul Ryan RetiresApril 11, 2018 at 2:32 pm
In a column earlier this year about the "daddy track," I wrote:
How The Minimum Wage Ruined DessertApril 10, 2018 at 1:18 pm
Closet libertarian and New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells writes about how rising minimum wages have ruined dessert in New York City restaurants:
David Brooks on Anti-TrumpismApril 10, 2018 at 12:48 pm
David Brooks gets it about right here in his latest column about the failures of anti-Trumpism:
Political Errors CompoundApril 10, 2018 at 6:17 am
In investing, the concept of compounding means that a small difference in savings or expenses can, over time, translate into a large one. A similar concept applies in navigation. Set off a few degrees off course on a short trip and you may wind up approximately where you were going. But if the trip is across an ocean, or a continent, by the time you arrive at your destination, a few degrees may mean a difference of hundreds of miles. The same idea applies to political and policy mistakes. What may seem like minor or forgettable failures can turn out to have large and lasting effects. What we appear to be seeing now with the government raid of the offices of President Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, is a compounding of a series of political and policy errors that Republicans have made over the years.
James Comey's EgoApril 9, 2018 at 4:57 pm
David Leonhardt at the New York Times (here) and Jim Geraghty at National Review (here) both have well-timed and cutting negative takes on prosecutor, FBI director, and former hedge fund general counsel James Comey, who has a book — A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership — and related publicity tour coming soon.
Questions For ZuckerbergApril 9, 2018 at 4:35 pm
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress — and, precisely, how or if the Trump campaign's use of Facebook data differed from the Obama campaign's use of Facebook data — is the topic of my column this week. Please check the full column out at Reason (here), Newsmax (here), and the New York Sun (here).
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