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Elon Musk

Wisconsin sends Trump-Musk a message

John Fea   |  April 2, 2025

Here is CNN.COM: Wisconsin voters on Tuesday delivered Democrats their biggest boost since President Donald Trump returned to power, handing liberals a state Supreme Court majority and defying Elon Musk’s record-shattering effort to bolster a conservative Trump acolyte. Liberal Susan Crawford defeated conservative Brad […]

A new Gilded Age?

John Fea   |  March 3, 2025

Are the robber barons back? Here is Politico historian Joshua Zeitz: At his second inauguration, as President Donald Trump promised to usher America into a new “golden age,” he was surrounded in the Capitol Rotunda by a handful of tech […]

Why we need National Park Service rangers

John Fea   |  February 28, 2025

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making heavy cuts to the National Park Service. We covered that here. But I wonder if Trump and Musk really understand all that National Park Service rangers do every day. Clarissa Moll does. Here […]

Bernie Sanders heads to the heartland for the “fight oligarchy” tour

John Fea   |  February 23, 2025

So far he has been in Iowa City and Omaha. Here is Julia Conley at Common Dreams: After addressing more than 3,400 Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight […]

The Trump (and Musk) cuts to the federal government are taking their toll on American institutions and the people who work for them

John Fea   |  February 19, 2025

The slashing and burning continues: Terminations at the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Interior are having a major impact on local communities. 3,400 people were fired from the Forest Service and 2,300 from the Department of Interior (National Park […]

60 German universities leave X

John Fea   |  January 13, 2025

In case anyone was wondering, I still do not have my X account back. And I am not losing much sleep over it, probably for the same reasons 60 German universities and research universities are not losing too much sleep […]

Right coding: who owns Homer anyway?

Nadya Williams   |  January 9, 2025

The right coding of Homer or the classics is really not helpful for anyone.

Princeton historian Kevin Kruse is done with Twitter (X)

John Fea   |  October 10, 2023

Back in 2018, in Episode 34 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast, we talked with Princeton historian Kevin Kruse about his use of Twitter to engage with the public. At the time, he had over 84,000 followers. A […]

“A pair of ancient mariners with a TV contract, condemned to tell their tale to everyone they meet” 

John Fea   |  December 27, 2022

This is how Marina Hyde of The Guardian described Meghan and Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who have made millions on their story. Over at Politico, writer Joanna Weiss describes 2022 as “the year we all finally got […]