The Red-Blue Divide Goes Well Beyond Biden and Trump
Births and deaths are only part of what makes America turn left or right.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/opinion/red-blue-states-demographics.html?smid=em-share
Month: February 2024
**** The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy
Private equity has made one-fifth of the market effectively invisible to investors, the media, and regulators.
***** Amazon’s Big Secret
Nearly 30 years after the company was founded, we still don’t really know where its profits come from. The answer will loom large in the antitrust case against it.
****** NYTimes.com: What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly?
What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly?
And what is it not?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/opinion/christian-nationalism.html?smid=em-share
**** NYTimes.com: China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball
China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball
Do we really want America to become a backwater of bloated, expensive, gas-guzzling cars?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/opinion/gm-ford-electric-vehicles.html?smid=em-share
************ NYTimes: The Mystery of White Rural Rage
The Mystery of White Rural Rage www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/opinion/white-rural-voters.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
******* NYTimes.com: Why People Fail to Notice Horrors Around Them
Why People Fail to Notice Horrors Around Them
Humans are hard-wired to adjust to changing circumstances. And that’s why terrible changes can occur slowly without much protest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/opinion/brain-habituation-horrors.html?smid=em-share
**** Texas’s Social-Media Law Is Dangerous. Striking It Down Could Be Worse.
Beware giving Big Tech a constitutional right to avoid regulation.
**** Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.