Gail Collins is a must-read today
So I will enable you to get past the pay firewall without using up any of your monthly quota of ten articles to readA New Era in Political Corruption.
It starts with her opening paragraph:
It starts with her opening paragraph:
Have you ever noticed how high the bar is when it comes to getting arrested for political corruption? Really, you practically have to go around with a sign that says “Will Trade Influence for Cash.”And that is just the start of a column inspired or provoked (you choose) by the arrests for political corruption etc. in New York this week. She says the politicians involved have acted in such a stupid way
it shatters our longstanding confidence that taking money was the one thing they know how to do well.Please keep reading for more snips. Unless you are going to go to her column right now, in which case the rest of this post is unnecessary.
Millennials are driving social - and political - change
The surge of generational change continues in this country, altering the cultural landscape with a speed and intensity that has rarely — if ever — been seen before.. So begins Charles M. Blow in a New York Times column titled The Young are the Restlessnew Pew Poll released Thursday notes that for the first time a majority of Americans favor legalizing marijuana, by a 52-45 margin. Note the following changes in percentages favoring by generation, with the latter figure the new pollgeneration
Silents from 17 in 2002 to 32
Boomers from 24 in 1994 to 50
Generation X from 28 in 1994 to 54
Millennials from 36 in 1994 to 65
Blow writes
The millennial generation is the generation of change. Millennials’ views on a broad range of policy issues are so different from older Americans’ perspectives that they are likely to reshape the political dialogue faster than the political class can catch up.