My, we've had a busy day:
- President Biden commuted the sentences of 1,500 Federal inmates in the largest single-day clemency in American history. Two of them stole millions in massive frauds against Illinois citizens. Josh Marshall doesn't see much clemency.
- Charles Sykes worries that neither major US political party has a clue how to fix our education systems (plural).
- Legalized sports betting has shifted billions from small punters to large corporations, which is why it was illegal for so long.
- Charles Blow muses about making friends after 50.
- Despite freaking out the usual car-besotted subjects, a plan to extend a protected bike lane in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Ill., will actually add parking spaces.
- A downtown Chicago office building constructed in 1928 will become 252 apartments under a plan that received City Council approval yesterday.
Finally, paleobiologists have narrowed the range of Neandertal-Sapiens interbreeding down to a period that peaked 47,000 years ago. Cue the jokes, starting with: "Who knew yo mama was that old?"