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Alicublog: Conservatives attack Fauci, as do writers at The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

Crooked Timber: Nate Silver discovers the educated poor.

Technopaideia: Why is socialism so unpopular in America?

Jen Sorensen: More e-commerce chaos.

Finally, RIP to Glen Hansard, a big-hearted musician with a big voice, who was great to hear live. Los Angeles station KCRW has posted a 90-minute session from 2015.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

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Last Friday The Daily Heller post was a reprise of an earlier notice on Steve Brower’s last book, Roy Kuhlman:…

The post The Daily Heller: It Was Great Working With You, Steve Brower appeared first on PRINT Magazine.

I've done a lot of interviews, but Hannah, 11, was hard to keep up with!

Reminder: “To make her President would be to gamble with the lives of millions of people. Sons and daughters will end up getting drafted to go fight for a war in a country that you’ve never heard of,” Trump said of Kamala Harris in 2024.

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“President Trump called off a new attack on Iran on Saturday night, saying ‘the perimeters of a deal had been agreed to’ that would open the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic and end Iran’s nuclear threat,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The abrupt announcement on Truth Social de-escalated the rising tensions between the U.S. […]

CNN: “During the latest high-stakes stretch in the Senate, with Trump’s own Cabinet nominee in trouble, the president’s election-year agenda teetering and a huge Iran funding bill in doubt, Thune told CNN he hadn’t spoken to the president in nearly two weeks. The split between the two has only widened since Trump moved to take […]

NOTUS: “Rank-and-file Democratic voters who once naturally inclined toward establishment-backed candidates are instead supporting — or at least showing an openness to — lefty candidates they would have previously believed to be outside the political mainstream. They’re driven by disappointment in old-guard Democrats’ inability to beat Trump in 2024 and a growing sense that the […]

“Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to elect state Supreme Court justices rather than have the governor appoint them, a push from conservatives who have chafed for years over court decisions they disagreed with on issues such as abortion, school funding and the death penalty,” the Associated Press reports. “If the constitutional amendment passes, supporters […]

“Over the past two months, the United States has made financial commitments that hint at a limited return to global health and humanitarian assistance partnerships, after the abrupt severing of many of those relationships a year and a half ago,” the New York Times reports.