In just a few minutes I will take Cassie to boarding, then head up to Northwestern for a rehearsal (I'm in the chorus at Ravinia's upcoming performances of La Clemenza di Tito.) I'll then have to pack when I get home from rehearsal, then head to a hotel by O'Hare. Ah, how much fun is an 8:30 international flight!
As I'll have some time at the airport in the morning, and no time now, I want to queue these up for myself:
- Jonathan Chait says Senator Joe Manchin (D?-WV) didn't kill President Biden's agenda all on his own. And Paul Kane says we should listen to what Manchin says in public, not what people think he said.
- Writing for the Post back in March, KK Olsen discusses how civil wars start with UCSD political scientist Barbara F. Walter.
- Josh Marshall sums up how the Democratic Party can regain power. Hint: we win by winning.
- Julia Ioffe and Tara Palmeri discuss the XPOTUS's upcoming campaign and Mark Meadows' "willies."
- Robert Wright says Obama may not have gotten it right about Russia and Ukraine.
- Commercial office buildings in Chicago's Loop have started thinking about converting to apartments, as everyone predicted.
- The Post has a series of maps showing just how bad the heat got this week in the US and Europe.
- National Geographic explains "The Knowledge" in a 2017 article on London cabbies.
All right, I'm off. After I pack.