On The Ezra Klein Show, Nate Silver opens up about his disenchantment with the 'political establishment' and how the ID politics of the Left have no place in the world of gamblers and risk-takers, which he explores in his new book On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.
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Latest from The Silver Bulletin:
Harris 46.9%
Trump 43.8%
In his NYTimes column 'Trump Calls Harris a 'Communist.' That Shows How Worried He Is,' Nobel Prize—winning economist Paul Krugman places Trump's 'redbaiting' of Harris in the context of American political tradition, an old-fashioned attack which endures in a country where there is no sufficient vocabulary to describe politicians who endorse both a free-market economy and a social safety net.
On the FT Swamp Notes podcast, Indiana native, author, and Financial Times Global Business Columnist Rana Foroohar chats about fellow midwesterner Tim Walz. The Biden administration is transitional, she says, and this is no typical election: America is somewhere between the neoliberal world and... something else. All the more important for democrats to bring along everyone, she reasons—including white men from the midwest.
Listen to Rana here, in conversation with FT Washington Bureau Chief James Politi.
In her recent NYTimes column, The Problem Is Not A.I. It's the Disbelief Created by Trump, Princeton techno-sociologist and author Zeynep Tufekci points out how AI provides the perfect cover for lies; Even if a lie is easily disproved, as in the case of videos of a Harris-Walz rally crowd in Michigan, a certain segment of Trump's audience is already primed to accept it. 'Once trust is lost and credibility is questioned,' Tufekci writes, 'the lie just needs a willing purveyor and an eager audience.'