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  • Waking Up to An Incoming Ballistic Missile

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    Saturday, yesterday, my wife ran into the house a few minutes after 8 AM  and shook me awake with the news that a ballistic missile was incoming towards our home. She had received the alert via the emergency system on every smartphone. We didn’t know why my phone hadn’t sounded the alarm (my wife says…

  • Working Your Way Up Has Been Dead for 35 Years

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    Neil Irwin’s article headlined “To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now” talks about the differences in opportunities for two different janitors 35 years apart. You should read it.

  • The Times’ Catalog of Dear Leader’s Lies

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    David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson: Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office. […] There is simply…

  • The Medium Car Crash

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    Evan Williams and his work are profiled in the New York Times by David Streitfeld. He’s behind Twitter and Blogger. There is one good point that succinctly explains a big problem with the web today: The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and…

  • “Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, did not dispute the account.”

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    Matt Apuzzo, Maggie Haberman, and Matthew Rosenberg for the Times: President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting. “I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real…