Meet Cleveland’s new Gentrification King. And you may not hate him.
I’m excited about this. Today we’re debuting the first in a five part Prime Longform series (sub req) on the rapid rise of renewables in the global energy market. Far faster than one might have expected only a couples years ago. Don’t miss part one in our series.
Natan Sachs will be joining The Hive to chat (sub req) about the Israeli election results, Israel’s reactions to the Iran negotiations and the future of U.S.-Israeli relations.
Sachs is a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy. His focus is on Israeli foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict — he taught a course about the conflict in Georgetown’s Security Studies Program — and he is currently writing a book on Israeli grand strategy and its domestic origins.
Please get your questions in early and then join us at 1 p.m. Friday in the Hive. TPM will moderate the chat.
The floral aesthetics smackdown at the White House continues to get more intense.
Cruz appeals to libertarian voters by saying taste in art should follow ideological imperatives.
“To understand Cruz’s role in 2016, one must recognize that the Tea Party in Washington today is a not an insurgency from below. It is a realignment within the Republican establishment that has committed the party to a position of extreme non-compromise.” The rest here.
I’ve been mainly away this week. So I only got a chance to catch up with the site this evening. And I have to say our headline on this story about Tucker Carlson’s brother’s email about de Blasio’s spokeswoman seriously understates what’s in the piece. I have zero sensitivity to vulgar speech. But I’d say this fellow may have some unworked through hostility toward women. Buckley Carlson appears to suffer from a pervasive fear of emasculation common among certain early 21st century bros. In my recent Annals of Psychiatry journal article I termed this condition “ejaculatory rage.” Read the story here.
In all the other Ted Cruz nonsense over recent days, I’m not sure how many people saw this piece by Josh Rogin, now at Bloomberg, on Cruz’s foreign policy agenda. The article is based on extensive interview from last year. The part that stuck out to me is Cruz’s list of three foreign policy experts he most trusts. It’s quite a list.
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Rand Paul does a big U-turn and proposes an increase in Pentagon spending.