Evening Roundup, October 8
Featuring Carron J. Phillips, Justin Wolfers and Jen Rubin, Lorraine Forte, Ned Price, Austin Sarat, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Brian O'Neill, "Rabid Miller Needs a Muzzle," Michael de Adder, & RJ Matson
Napheesa Collier offers a lesson on confronting failing leadership. America, take note.
By Carron J. Phillips
You’re doing irreparable damage when your stewardship is described as 'the world’s worst' while Trump is in office.
The REAL state of the economy & America's future as an economic powerhouse with Justin Wolfers
Justin Wolfers, expert economist and public policy scholar, joins Jen to lay out what we know about the current state of the economy and its potential negative ripple effects. Wolfers presents a digestible explanation on our economic status—despite Trump’s labor statistics blackout—while weighing how net zero, or net negative, migration can tank our global standing.
Dispatch from Chicago: This is not a 'war zone'
By Lorraine Forte
A week after the outrage of a military-style raid on a Chicago apartment building, the city is bracing for a National Guard deployment ordered by President Trump.
The Pentagon handcuffs free press and Gaza's potential peace deal with Ned Price
A Pentagon crackdown on free press. An unsure peace deal for Gaza. A State Department raided of its best and brightest. The most pressing foreign policy issues are coming to a head, and Ned Price, diplomat and former UN representative, is here to walk us through it.
Trump’s blueprint for tyranny
For anyone who wants a distillation of President Donald Trump’s dictatorial ambitions, let me recommend the so-called “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education.” Don’t be fooled by the title.
Yes, we still need to protect mifepristone
A pair of recent headlines about women’s health policy advances at the Food and Drug Administration right before the federal shutdown sounded almost … reasonable? Even promising?
The Nobel Prize is about character, not headlines
I might be wrong, but I doubt the Nobel Committee will announce this week that any of the 2025 laureates spend summers at Mar-a-Lago.
All on board
Michael de Adder is an award-winning editorial cartoonist. You can find him on Substack here.
The Reaper
RJ draws several editorial cartoons each week for his substack, e pluribus cartoonum, and for Roll Call, the newspaper of Congress and Capitol Hill. His work is widely syndicated to print newspapers by Cagle Cartoons.
We need the press to take Miller down. We’ve had about enough of this shit. Are we as Americans going to let this bald, bloodthirsty freak terrorize us? For heavens sake, take that sewer creature down.
Let’s start calling miller, President Miller, if there were enough of us doing that perhaps taco would fire him 👍💙🤬