Bush No Longer Seen as Effective Manager Along with the lowest overall job approval rating of his presidency, the latest <i>USA Today</i>/Gallup poll gives President George W. Bush record low scores for his handling of a variety of national ...

George W. Bush from 2006 would like to have a word.

34% Approve/63% Disapprove April 2006

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The plan to get Congress to take "immediate action" with a blizzard of activity - but the "100 Days" only got its name after the fact, in a speech he gave in July looking back on the start of the New Deal.

Donald Trump is the only person in the world who doesn't realise that the expression "Is the Pope Catholic?" is a joke

Happy 50th anniversary to “All the President’s Men” — a film that owes its existence to Redford, who bought the film rights, developed the script and cajoled a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein.

I thought it was “a great character study,” he said later. But, for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”

I admit I was skeptical at the time, but this @chrislhayes.bsky.social post last year may turnout to be the triumph of hope over experience

Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived

The Serbia/Austro-Hungarian angle worked in 1914 but now it just feels like lazy writing.

"The unexamined life is ... just fine, actually. Totally worth living." - Socrates, probably

Putting out my periodic call: if you have a book coming out about finance, econ, politics, media or tech, send me a galley. DM me and I’ll give you my email for your PR people. We do author interviews for Slate Money’s Money Talks series and I’m always thinking about columns on these topics

If there is one thing I’ve learned is that if a project is struggling, adding a bunch of new trainees always helps, especially if they’re being paid and you’re not, and they’re the reason you’re not being paid

There are going to be so many of these clips when it's all done that no one will even notice this one. But for me, this is his world view plus his stunning physical and mental decline in 30 seconds.

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The very obvious problem with this implementation of popularism, as a purely political matter, is that you are *constantly* raising the salience of your worst issues!

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

Stelter has to know better. His example shows there's literally only one news show where they've learned there's a price if they censor - by trying to!

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

It's almost like the FIFA Peace Prize wasn't real

Ya think?

People who didn’t grow up in New England don’t understand the place the Blizzard of ‘78 has in our historical understanding. It’s up there with like, 1776 and the Magna Carta for world foundational events.

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
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The Cole was bombed in 2000.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

An Ishtar-level calamity

The Lincoln Memorial is IMO the sacred temple of our democracy. Civic blasphemy.

I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.

The first professional police force in the US began in 1838 in Boston. In 1854 only three cities had police forces: NYC, Philly, and Boston.

"Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade." (All the better that a few beats later is "Are my eyes really brown?")

Reagan had a sign on his desk. Donald Trump has another one. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/no-nobel-n...

Each week, when you read the credits, his is the name I expect to hear you say, all these years later. Just a total association since the earliest days of your show.

Thank you for sharing this. And I plan to take your advice.

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.