By Eric Newcomer @ Bloomberg.com, April 25

“It’s often lost on the public just how badly they’re being screwed”

Pet peeve of mine since I figured out through my own troubles connecting wassup with this; glad to see the coverage

Book review by Isabel Hull @ London Review of Books, for April 2018 print issue (free online), of The Internationalists and Their Plan to Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro , 608 pp, September 2017. Lede:

By Michele Cottle @ TheAtlantic.com, April 24

As the culture war between gay rights and religious liberty rages, conservatives are livid that the president renominated Chai Feldblum at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided against recusing himself from the investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, but will consider stepping back from specific questions tied to the probe, according to a person familiar with the matter.

I wonder if this is actually auspicious for the investigation. For all his faults, Sessions seems less inclined to toady to Trump these days. Assuming he doesn't interfere with the investigation, Trump would have to remove both Sessions and Rosenstein (and Francisco?) to find someone who would close the Cohen case.

I won’t try to paraphrase this Lithub excellent essay by Rebecca  Solnit.

This is just one example in the well-wriiten look at how things have changed on the empathy train:

...PBS News Hour featured a quiz by Charles Murray in March that asked “Do You Live in a Bubble?” The questions assumed that if you didn’t know people who drank cheap beer and drove pick-up trucks and worked in factories you lived in an elitist bubble. Among the questions: “Have you ever lived for at least a year in an American community with a population under 50,000 that is not part of a metropolitan area and is not where you went to college? Have you ever walked on a factory floor? Have you ever had a close friend who was an evangelical Christian?”