Of course, Travis is referring to cicadas, but maybe not: “If there’s anything that brings to mind the term ‘super brood,’ it’s the 2024 election,” he writes, referring to a double appearance of two sets of cicadas this summer.
Travis says the bugs he shot also had red or blue eyes. “Coincidence? I don’t think so.”
If insects are an unpleasant reminder of our political strife, opinion managers Rachel Manteufel A slightly larger animal finds a helping hand. Rachel watches as a cheetah befriends a dog.
This is content popularized by the San Diego Zoo Kids Channel, which also features turtles getting their scrubs back and orangutans playing with bubbles, and it’s commercial-free. Sure, Rachel writes, it’s “for kids, but it’s also great fun for adults, too.”
And we adults need a little fun right now.Unfortunately, SDZK is a special closed-circuit program, and the only place Rachel saw it was at the hospital.
Until it’s accessible to the masses, we’ll have to be content with finding the bright side of semis. Luckily, Travis shows us the way.
“The noise may be a nuisance, but any re-emergence, whether of insects or politics, represents a healthy ecosystem,” he wrote. “As long as cicada outbreaks and elections continue to occur on schedule, we will know we are on the right track.”
Chaser: George Will They suggest some of this year’s chaos could have been avoided if jurisdictions hadn’t selected their own prosecutors.
from Megan McArdle A column about the brilliant idea and utter impossibility of making drivers pay for causing congestion.
After all, people don’t like the idea of suddenly paying for something that’s always been provided to them for free, even if it means improving the lives of most people who encounter the service. In a veto-heavy political system like America’s, that means the service will remain free. That’s why New York Governor Kathy Hochl decided to suspend (pronounced “kill,” Meghan writes) the congestion pricing program that was supposed to be implemented in New York City this month.
This has unfortunate implications for the rest of the country, which is plagued by gridlock: “If congestion pricing can’t be implemented in Manhattan, it’s safe to say it can’t be implemented in the rest of America,” Megan says.
Book Author Garry Wills His stepmother, Lidia, who was born on a river farm in Italy and brought to America as a child, wrote that she was “a dreamer before anyone else dreamed of such things, arriving as a child and never allowing herself to think that this place might not be the place for her.”
But during World War II, she developed a deep fear of federal agents, who raided her home to find out if she had sent messages to Mussolini on her personal radio, and this fear prevented her from ever visiting Italy again, because she would have had to meet federal agents face to face to obtain a passport.
How terrible, Wills writes, that today’s immigrants — those who have lived in the United States their whole lives and who are indisputably American — still face the same horrors. It is up to the nation’s voters to not amplify those horrors for a new Lydian generation by re-electing Donald Trump.
Chaser: In the latest episode of the “Impromptu” podcast, our columnists Karen Tumulty, Leon Krause and Jim Geraghty We explain why bad politics continue to get in the way of good immigration policy.
- David Ignatius It analyzes the paradox that awaits Gaza: a post-war period in which the war continues.
- of Editorial Committee He wrote that Hunter Biden’s conviction shows that there is no dual justice system.
- The rise of right-wing parties in Europe and the resulting unrest will please President Vladimir Putin. Lee Hochsteder writing.
It’s a goodbye. It’s a haiku. It’s… “goodbye.”
Show me the way to harmony!
Hurry! … Traffic jam
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