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Talking Point archive

October 2021

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October 31st
- Cities are too loud. We can fix that.
- The American prison system is the haunted house of tomorrow
October 29th
- The problem with crying wolf about the weather
- The CIA tortured this man. Americans should hear what he has to say.
October 28th
- Biden and Pelosi call progressives' bluff
- Iran clearly wants a nuclear deal. Does Biden?
- Cultural issues aren't abstract or petty. The GOP has taken notice.
October 27th
- The real reason the Pentagon is sounding the alarm over China's hypersonic missile
- The forgotten history of Republican book banning
- Trump's coalition of terrible men
- Why vaccinating low-risk kids still makes sense
- There aren't enough rich people for Democrats' 'tax the rich' plan
- How Manchin and Sinema differ — and why it doesn't matter
October 26th
- The important lesson of Ross Douthat's medical memoir
- Joe Manchin is exactly where he belongs
- The real threat to Facebook isn't regulation. It's teenagers.
- The Patriot Act is 20 years old. It shouldn't survive to 21.
- Why social media can't be regulated like other media
October 25th
- Ron DeSantis isn't just anti-mandate. He's anti-vax.
October 22nd
- J.D. Vance tries to trick the Trump base into eating their vegetables
- Trump wouldn't be quiet. Biden should be.
October 21st
- Trump is fighting Twitter's censorship with an even more censorious social site of his own
- The Biden administration is trying to minimize supply chain issues. It isn't a good look.
October 20th
- Facebook prepares to use Big Tobacco's 1 weird trick
- 3 new polling takeaways for Trump, Biden, and congressional Democrats
October 19th
- Is Big Tech its own country? Not really.
- This Oklahoma case gives us a horrifying glimpse of the post-Roe future
October 18th
- Stop letting COVID infect TV
- Democrats' religious hypocrisy is on display in Virginia
- Colin Powell's death is not proof of vaccine failure
- Biden keeps claiming his agenda costs $0. C'mon.
- Iraq was Colin Powell at his worst — and most human
October 15th
- Why the CDC shouldn't hide vaccine data — no matter how ripe for abuse
- Biden's SCOTUS commission gives Democrats a rallying cry
- Why Biden's team is pushing for a death penalty he won't execute
- An ode to Adele's hands
- Kyrsten Sinema's poll numbers should terrify her
October 14th
- How Katie Couric's RBG interview contributes to America's misinformation problem
- Trump's risky plan to make 2022 about himself
October 13th
- The meaning of Republicans' anti-mandate mandates
- You think Joe Biden's approval rating is bad now? Just wait till Christmas.
- Beware the politics of inflation
October 12th
- The quick economic recovery we were promised isn't coming
- Democrats are right to 'do fewer things well'
- Biden wants to snoop in nearly every American's bank account
October 11th
- U.S. 'victories' in Iraq are a grim warning for great-power conflict with China
- Democrats have a race problem. It's not what they think.
- The needless loss of 22,000 lives in Florida and Texas
October 8th
- Will Elon Musk turn Texas blue?
- McConnell's debt ceiling tightrope
October 7th
- McConnell's filibuster fixation is a Democratic opportunity — and a threat
- Congress is choosing the 2nd stupidest option on the debt ceiling
- An itsy-bitsy glimmer of hope for Democrats: Biden is failing extremely early
October 6th
- The GOP virtue signals on the debt ceiling
- Winter's looming energy crisis
- The impractical but plausible fantasy of a national divorce
October 5th
- The debt ceiling: A fight about nothing
- The conservative case for postal banking
October 4th
- A viral conversion story and the paradox of choosing to leave modernity
- China's ominous incursions over Taiwan
- The unpersuasive intimidation of Kyrsten Sinema
October 2nd
- Tom Brady puts Bill Belichick's legend to the test
October 1st
- A hint the Afghanistan war isn't really over
- Justice Alito's political case for SCOTUS transcendence of politics
- How school boards became the front line in the war for democracy

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