Bless Ryan Lizza.

Bless Ryan Lizza.

HINT: tax cuts.

HINT: tax cuts.

Mihir Sharma for Bloomberg View:

There’s no clearer sign of a nation’s descent into self-absorption and petty nationalism than the conviction that its darkest shame is in fact its greatest glory.

See also the cult of the confederacy in the United States.

David Remnick interviews the irreplaceable Maggie Haberman on the The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast.

Also a transcript:

[W]e’re used to a team of rivals. We are not used to a team of the Bloods and the Crips. Which is essentially what this is in the White House. I mean, these are rival gangs.... I think I need to add in some new gang names, too, because Bloods and the Crips makes it sound like there are only two teams. There’s something like six.

David Remnick interviews the irreplaceable Maggie Haberman on the The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast.

Also a transcript:

[W]e’re used to a team of rivals. We are not used to a team of the Bloods and the Crips. Which is essentially what this is in the White House. I mean, these are rival gangs.... I think I need to add in some new gang names, too, because Bloods and the Crips makes it sound like there are only two teams. There’s something like six.

Via New York Magazine, (b/c paywall) The Wall Street Journal has discovered, “Google is shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to academics writing papers about Google.”

Over the past decade, Google has helped finance hundreds of research papers to defend against regulatory challenges of its market dominance, paying $5,000 to $400,000 for the work, The Wall Street Journal found.

That’s a hell of a way not to be evil.