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When they go low, we go viral What's the endgame here? NEW YORK — Zohran Mamdani rode the digital slipstream to success in New York. Now millennials and Gen Zers are banking on a similar wave to boost their political dreams. The mayor-elect energized New York City’s youth vote, earning the support of nearly 70 percent of voters aged 18 to 44 in the general election. His publicity strategy — complete with shareable graphics, collaborations with content creators and local artists’ animations — appealed to a new trove of young voters, people who primarily get their information in short-form TikTok videos and social media posts rather than legacy media. A wave of millennial and Gen Z Democratic hopefuls across the country are looking to follow that lead in shaking up an aging party — from a 25-year-old political influencer in Arizona, to a 35-year-old congressional candidate in Idaho, to a 24-year-old mayoral candidate in Georgia. “The theme that we have seen this year, different from years past, is ‘I'm done waiting around. I'm sick of being told it's not my turn,’” said Amanda Litman, president of Run for Something, a candidate recruitment company focused on electing progressives under 40. The surge has rippled far beyond New York, touching races in red and purple states alike as younger Democrats test whether digital-first campaigns can compensate for limited funding, party support and name recognition. It also has reopened a debate inside the Democratic Party over what it takes to build a viable campaign — and whether traditional gatekeepers are misreading how younger voters engage with politics. While Gen Z and millennials span different age groups, both are entering politics with similar digital fluency — and similar distance from the party’s traditional power structures. The effects are already visible in candidate recruitment. Run for Something reported a surge of 10,000 young Democrats across the country expressing interest in launching a campaign immediately after Mamdani’s primary win. Another 1,616 potential candidates signed up within one day of the shutdown-ending deal to reopen the government, the group said. “We’re building a party of fighters, not folders,” Litman posted on X in November along with a graph of the sign-up splurge. The push for younger candidates comes as Democratic leadership skews older than the electorate it represents. The average age in the House and the Senate is roughly 58 and 65, respectively, and the median school board member is 59, according to Pew Research Center. The median age in the United States is 39. More than 20 progressives under the age of 40 have announced a congressional campaign for this election cycle, nearly half of whom are looking to unseat a member of their own party. And with the Democratic Party having no clear leader, the younger …

A Year in Review: How the Trump Administration’s Economic Policies Made Life Less Affordable for Americans How is this acceptable? The first year of the Trump administration has left Americans struggling with increased costs of living due to its unprecedented tariffs, fewer job opportunities, and more expensive health care and utilities.

Looking at recent history, Europe often appears more reactive than proactive during major geopolitical moments. I’m trying to think of clear cases where Europe didn’t just tolerate, condemn, or wait things out — but actually took the lead. What moments come to mind for you, if any? This affects the entire country. Europe talks a lot about values, rules, and red lines, but in practice it often seems stuck in a cycle of condemnation without follow-through. Am I missing recent examples, or has this really become the norm?

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What Do You Think Of The Idea Of: "Government By Formula"? This deserves loud pushback. EG where you specify that some aspect of public policy or government is determined by a particular formula or equation within the given parameters. If A, then B. Does it seem potentially useful? For instance, you can take the median income of the country, possibly adjusted by a factor punishing a high Gini coefficient and rewardng a lower coefficient, and use some multiple of that as the pay that politicians will get (which could be a multiplier of 1, but you can use something else). Another might be fixing the size of the legislature to the cube root of the population, rounded up to the next odd number to prevent ties. You could perhaps make it a constitutional rule that the amount of money that a person is required to spend on healthcare in order to meet their basic medical needs cannot exceed some percentage of their household income per month, and if this does not occur, then the central budget picks up the tab above this threshold. This is probably not a good way of getting reelected if the tab if too high that it cuts into your ability to do other things you want with power, so you better truly believe your plan will work. Fines for offenses could be determined like this too, such as how they could be a percentage of your income and not a specific fixed amount of money. This is often called a day fine if you are curious about it. You could perhaps also make repeat offenses, especially for any offense that is often seen as a mere cost of doing business, have the penalties raised to a certain exponent. If, based on what we can expect a well run and ethical company to do in a year let's say is 10 total violations of some thing per year, some typical minor infraction that are not too serious and are promptly dealt with and not systematic, then you can set the exponent such that the fine is not too burdensome, but if they rack up more than this, the exponent's power rises fast enough that it is going to sting you much harder. As an example, a fine of $10,000 with an exponent that begins with 1 and increases by 0.02 for each offense will give their second offense a fine of $10,965, their 6th offense is $25,119, and their 26th offense carries a fine of $1,000,000.

Her Daughter Died After Taking a Generic Version of a Lifesaving Drug. This Is What She Wants You to Know. Who benefits from this decision? When I first learned that a critical medication for transplant patients — one that keeps them alive — had generic versions that might not be effective, I called a specialty pharmacist at a hospital in Virginia. Adam Cochrane had written a journal article about the problems with the generics.  The drug is called tacrolimus, and it keeps a transplant patient’s body from rejecting a donated organ. I was surprised to hear that Cochrane had several patients he thought had died in part because their generic tacrolimus hadn’t worked right. He told me about Hannah Goetz, though he didn’t divulge her name initially. She would become the focus of a story I published recently that’s part of a larger investigation into how the Food and Drug Administration has for years allowed risky drugs into your medicine cabinet.  Hannah was 17 when she had a double lung transplant because of complications from cystic fibrosis, a genetic condition that fills the organs with mucus. She died in 2023 at just 21 years old, he said. And she had been taking one of the bad generics.  He agreed to see if her mom would be willing to chat with me. When I met Holly Goetz at her home in Portsmouth, Virginia, she was open and personable. She was angry, too. Hannah had died too young. She welcomed the chance to tell her daughter’s story. “I was excited, because someone was going to research this issue,” Holly told me recently. “Possibly turn things around.” Before we’d met, she’d been told she didn’t have any legal recourse to sue over Hannah’s death despite the issue with the generic. Lawyers told Holly it was impossible to draw a straight line from Hannah’s death to a generic manufacturer. I knew that in telling Hannah’s story in detail, I’d also be telling the larger story about tacrolimus, and larger still about the systemic failures at the FDA. ProPublica’s reporting typically focuses on exposing wrongdoing in the hopes of spurring change. I wasn’t sure whether our reporting would bring Holly the accountability she yearned for, at least not in a tangible way. I hoped Holly’s experience sharing an intimate, tragic part of her life wouldn’t end up being a disappointment. Holly had been by Hannah’s side, advocating for her since she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and through the four-year journey after the transplant. Over several hours as the sky turned dark that February day, she took me through all that happened — from Hannah’s sudden need for a transplant where she almost died, to her doing well enough to take college courses and enjoy having her first (and only) real boyfriend, to her unexpected decline just three and half years after the successful transplant.  “It was hard, because I was reliving everything over again,” Holly said of our first interview at her home. “Then again, I got to talk to someone else about Hannah, who she was, not just her in the hospital.”  As she showed me Hannah’s peach bedroom that day, with its dozens of stuffed animals and the hair bows she wore every day when she was in school, Holly shared that when Hannah was a little girl she started sticking her tongue out in pictures. Holly laughed, saying she thought for sure Hannah would …

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Sure, Republican governors are exposing the grand hypocrisy of limousine liberals who preach diversity and tolerance while walling off their exclusive colony. Rah-rah, sis-boom, ha-ha-ha. Hilarity abounds. So many memes and viral videos! What a riot giggling about which Democratic city illegal aliens should be sent to next. Of course, mass-migration-pimping Democrats are as guilty of “human trafficking” as their counterparts now acting as travel agents for the Third World cheap-labor pipeline. Don’t need to tell me. I’ve written three bestsellers and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of columns on the subject over the past 30 years. But whether it’s Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis dumping Venezuelans on Martha’s Vineyard or Texas GOP Gov. Greg …

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More... This Commenter This Thread Hide Thread Display All Comments AgreeDisagreeThanksLOLTrollThese buttons register your public Agreement, Disagreement, Thanks, LOL, or Troll with the selected comment. They are ONLY available to recent, frequent commenters who have saved their Name+Email using the 'Remember My Information' checkbox, and may also ONLY be used three times during any eight hour period. Ignore Commenter Follow Commenter Search Text Case Sensitive  Exact Words  Include Comments SearchClearCancel List of Bookmarks When I first started writing newspaper editorials and columns for the Los Angeles Daily News in November 1992, I learned that “-30-” (pronounced “dash thirty dash”) was the journalist’s code for letting an editor know where your copy ended. Most media historians believe the typesetting mark originated when news was filed by telegraph. Western Union’s famous mid-19th-century 92 Code of numerical shorthand signals lists the meaning of “-30-” as: “No more — the end.” I prefer the definition in Webster’s Dictionary: “A sign of completion.” From 1992-1999, I wrote an estimated 300 bylined newspaper columns and nearly 1,000 unsigned editorials combined for the Los Angeles Daily News and Seattle Times. Since Creators Syndicate started carrying my column nationally in 1999, I’ve penned nearly 2,000 weekly or bi-weekly columns over 1,177 weeks, for hundreds of print and website clients, totaling more than 1.1 million words. It has been a blessing to work in a career that I have loved, getting paid by the line to opine, as a proud “ink-stained wretch” whose first high-school job was as a press inserter for my hometown newspaper, the Atlantic City Press, back in the late 1980s. The …

Daniel Lilley: Britain must rewire the education system to end the great university con This isn't complicated—it's willpower. Daniel Lilley is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Justice. The UCAS application deadline closed last week, with hundreds of thousands of young people across the country scrambling to finish up their personal statements, and surely at least one or two questioning how visible ChatGPT’s guiding hand will be to admissions officers. 2025 saw record numbers of applications and this year is likely to be no different. University applications dwarf every other path at 18 by some margin. Today, over three fifths of young people in England progress into a degree in the two years after finishing their studies, according to the DfE. Decades on from Tony Blair’s famous 50 per cent target, university remains the dominant route, the esteemed route, the expected route. But should this be the case in 2026? New analysis by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) suggests otherwise, finding that the value of university degrees, especially relative to apprenticeships, has deteriorated over recent years. Five years after qualifying in their early twenties, a higher level (L4) apprentice will now earn almost £12,500 more than a student graduating from a low-value university course – and £5,000 more than the average graduate. Even ten years after donning the mortarboard for their graduation photo, the average graduate still earns £2,500 less than the salary taken home by a higher apprentice in half the time. This is before we even consider the student debt that those heading to university are taking on. Apprentices not only avoid this debt, but earn, albeit modestly, throughout their training. The average student had debts of £53,000 after graduating last year, and – as has been reported this week – the interest is so high that for many earners the debt pile continues to mass well into their twenties and thirties. As ever, the British public are ahead of the curve. Just four per cent of the public think that degrees are better than apprenticeships for gaining employment. It is clear to much of the country that we have too many people taking degrees with low-income prospects and too few people entering technical and vocational training. We lead the OECD in “overqualification”. If you have a degree from a university outside of the top 20 (as ranked by The Times), then your chances of entering low skilled work after university are doubled. Meanwhile our construction and skilled trade sector are creaking under chronic and severe skills shortages, accounting for almost half of vacancies. As the number starting apprenticeships has fallen, the leaky skills pipeline has faltered, and these trades have become increasingly reliant on older workers. Since 2008 the under 24 construction workforce has shrunk by 40 per cent, while the proportion over 65 has trebled. Bob …

Dems use Venezuela to hammer affordability issues at home Confidence requires clarity. Democrats hoping to win higher office this year are seizing on President Donald Trump’s intervention in Venezuela to push a twist on one of his campaign promises: America first. Across the country, candidates and lawmakers are slamming Trump’s decision to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and are using the moment to hammer their domestic affordability message. “Ohioans are facing higher costs across the board and are desperate for leadership that will help deliver relief,” former Sen. Sherrod Brown, who is running to reclaim his seat, said on X. “We should be more focused on improving the lives of Ohioans – not Caracas.” The frame from Democrats shows how potent the party views affordability as an issue in the midterms, one that Trump and his team have grown increasingly preoccupied by after across-the-board losses in 2025. “The problem Trump was already having was that he looked like he was focused on everything other than what matters in people's daily life,” said longtime Democratic strategist Jesse Ferguson, a former spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “And now he’s just supercharged that.” Trump won in 2024 largely by running on affordability, and his less interventionist “America First” approach helped him win over more isolationist voters who had been alienated by the neoconservative approach of the Republican Party in the Iraq War era. But continuing economic uncertainty and persistent inflation, combined with his second-term shift towards a more aggressive foreign policy approach, threaten to hurt the president and his party at the ballot box. Polling shows that cost of living will remain top of voters’ minds before November, something that Ferguson said “transcends every subgroup.” In some of the party’s most competitive 2026 midterm primaries, Democrats are coalescing around messaging on Venezuela. In Michigan, where the war in Gaza drew clear fissures between Democratic opponents, all three candidates sang the same domestically-focused tune. “Americans have made themselves crystal clear: they don’t want to risk sliding into another costly war abroad. Families are struggling to buy groceries. People are skipping doctor's visits because they can't pay for healthcare,” state Sen. Mallory McMorrow said in a statement. “Make no mistake, this is about enriching his oil executive donors who want access to Venezuela’s oil — not about democracy or Maduro or narcotics. Meanwhile, they tell us we can’t afford healthcare at home,” Abdul El Sayed, the former head of the Wayne County Department of Health, wrote on X. “Taking over another country while Americans can't afford their rent and groceries is unacceptable,” said Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.). The issue isn’t just being used by midterm hopefuls. …