Don't look now, but there's another piece of evidence pointing toward Russian cultivation of Trump dating back to 1987

I've gotten my hands on a copy of "The Ten year War," @CitizenCohn 's history of the battle to create and protect Obamacare. It's really good, a rare combo of inside reporting and grasp of policy. Read it for yourself:

In the post-Trump era, we have trending stories so dull they could have made Kinsley's famous boring headline contest

Haven’t you read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie? It’s all there. I read it as a parable about Munich

Trump's appeal to Republicans was that he was a "winner." So why do they love even more as a loser?

On Trumpism as a cult of losing

This story by @zeynep  is comprehensively excellent, but most useful in her account of how the method of rejecting the null hypothesis led to miscommunication:

Here is Donald McNeil's account of his interactions with the prep school teens in Peru, which is very different than the account the students have given to reporters

Conservatives complain Romney's plan fails to solve the root causes of poverty. Why do we have to solve the root causes? Why not just make it better?