The Weekly Sift

My worry is that this gets filed away as a freak event, when the same small river flooded 14 months earlier and nobody moved a gauge onto it.

Obeying orders doesn’t mean you can’t drag your feet.

Pete Hegseth’s fight with his generals boiled over last week with the resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.

Bullies seem to have a finely tuned awareness of where the margins of permission lie as regards abuses, and choose their targets based on whose suffering will be most broadly acceptable to others. – A.

Labor Day is the traditional signal for Democrats — but usually not Republicans these days — to abandon their edgier positions and “move to the center”.

Next weekend is Labor Day, which is the traditional let’s-get-serious moment in American election campaigns.

Here is the thing.

A few months ago it looked like a pipe dream.

The primaries are about over, so it’s time to look to the fall election.

There’s a maddening tendency among elected officials and the political press to equate “far left” and “far right” candidates as occupying equally extreme, dangerous ends of the political spectrum, though those in the former camp mostly want universal heal…