Wherein Nancy plays you Susannah Hoffs, grows curious and then angry over David Remnick's soft-balling of questions to an armchair terrorist, and satisfies your cultural consumption needs for at least a week!

The vaccine mandate on health care workers, ahead of the broader mandate on the rest of us, is putting America in uncharted territory.

"If it's so grave that we have to go to a draft, we need everybody," Rep. Michael Waltz (R–Fla.), a Green Beret veteran, said in a statement after the September 1 committee vote. "We need man, woman, gay, straight, any religion, Black, white, brown. We need everybody, all hands on deck." Like a Benetton ad, only with guns.

Media persists in pediatric scare stories even while the country's largest dataset shows tiny yet still-declining rates, including among the needlessly quarantined.

Nancy, Matt and Matt's bandana are back for another Paloma Media Podcast!

Are schools dangerous COVID vectors? Is free speech on campus really *that* big of a problem? Are the kids alright? WHO CAN KNOW?!

The president bemoans the incivility of politics while accusing Republicans of being "cavalier" about the potential for dead kids

Political class rallies behind making the infrequently used recall mechanism more difficult to deploy

Matt's still wearing the bandanna and Nancy might be barefoot as they eke out the last days of summer, talking about what felt like a hopeful September 11th and why the media should ease up on the COVID scaremongering

A prismatic view of events in Portland, Oregon on July 22, 2020

An IRS with the ability to compel global transaction data sounds like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel. Yet here we are—unless we consciously cover our tracks.