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On divorce and Felicia Sonmez and why the cure for contempt is love

"A toothless woman screams. A legless man lights a pipe. A woman with a leg cast encrusted in grime rolls past in a desultory manner, toward and then away from several men also in wheelchairs, one of whom's foot is so badly infected my groin contracts and feels flash-burned." Scene at the open-air drug market on San Francisco's UN Plaza, two days before the recall of SF DA Chesa Boudin

Nancy Rommelmann was on the ground for the run-up to the recall of Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's progressive DA. The first in a series of podcasts on the recall, including in this episode the views of a San Francisco police officer as to why Boudin should go.

After winning its two highest-ever presidential vote percentages in 2016 and 2020, the Libertarian Party was taken over by activists embarrassed by those campaigns. Will they attract more votes?

White player suspended for calling black player "Jackie"; many journalists conclude that the player (and Yankees fans!) are racist.

A new White House policy faces one of the most malignant foreign policy objections: that it's not a magic wand for regime change.

New York City pressures Wall Street banks to report "self-identified gender, race and/or ethnicity of individual directors."

This is what public policy looks like when a major political party plays kissy-face with public sector unions

In episode 1 of See You Next Tuesday, their new (mostly) weekly noon-time (EST) live YouTube broadcast, Nancy Rommelmann and Matt Welch talk about the damage done to kids by terrible pandemic policies, from masking to school closures to officials that sacrificed the well-being of children for political gain and the culture wars. Also! Some Substack news (links in episode notes!)

All stories are worth telling well, but especially the difficult ones, says Nancy Rommelmann, when we need the writer's assurance as we walk down the dark passage

The girls welcome Liel Leibovitz, editor-at-large of Tablet magazine. Read Liel’s essay that made people yell at him. This may have been the Jewiest episode we ever recorded, but goys fear not - we’ll be back with the usual nonsense next week. Also: Please join us on Substack! Comment! Email! Give money! Or just sign up and say hey. https://askajew.substack.com/

In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's time for Europe to step up and America to step back.