Should Democrats, tantalized by her Monday appearance with Hillary Clinton in Ohio, be rooting for an Elizabeth Warren VP nomination? “There are serious downsides to Warren, and just as critically, for Warren,” Jamelle Bouie warns. Two considerations: The progressive senator from Massachusetts could overshadow her running mate, and her open Senate seat could be snapped up by a GOP replacement.
The Brexit vote, while affirming some kind of a Trumpian worldview in England, still doesn’t mean good things for Trump, Will Saletan argues. “The vote for Brexit didn’t show that a majority of voters in the United Kingdom opposes immigration,” Saletan argues, marshalling poll numbers to support his argument. “And while most Republicans support Trump’s immigration policies, most Americans don’t.”
Psychologist Laura L. Hayes writes that mental illness or “prejudice” are no indicators of an individual’s tendency to lash out in violence. Unregulated anger is the real culprit. “Violent crimes are committed by people who lack the ability to regulate and modulate their response to perceived danger,” Hayes argues. “This is not a hypothesis; it is a fact.”
The New York Times crossword puzzle included a head-shaker of a clue today, and Ruth Graham takes the occasion to look back at a number of instances of tone-deaf language that have appeared in crossword puzzles in the past few years. This matters, Graham argues: “If this seem like a disproportionate reaction to a daily brain-teaser for dweebs, consider the role that puzzles play in solvers’ lives. There’s an intimacy that accompanies any such daily ritual, no matter how ephemeral.”
For fun: Gilmore Girls fan? Watch Michelle Obama and Rory Gilmore (well, Alexis Bledel) talk about books.
Come back soon, Rory,
Rebecca
