Brickbats: November 2019

Heritage train companies, which run steam engine tours, will have to shell out millions to retrofit passenger cars to comply with new British safety regulations. The rules mandate bars over …

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Trump’s Near-Zero Presidency

Candidate Donald Trump memorably promised to “bomb the s—” out of ISIS in 2015. And on that single count, President Trump has delivered: Although the Islamic State was already on …

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The Other ’80s Blade Runner Movie

Keep an eye out for replicants. Ridley Scott’s science fiction film Blade Runner is supposed to take place in November 2019, and November 2019 begins today. In honor of that, …

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Today in Supreme Court History: November 1, 1961

11/1/1961: Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut opens center in New Haven, CT. “Specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give …

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Nice Try!

Nice Try! is a great name for a podcast, and it perfectly captures the tone of this series about utopias—from the Oneida Community to Biosphere 2 to the suburban developments of …

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