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EVEN BEFORE our oldest serving president was inaugurated, a progressive chorus began calling for our oldest sitting justice to retire. Pundits and professors argue that 82-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer should step down to guarantee that President Biden names his successor. They raise the object lesson of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had declined such entreaties—thinking it more likely that the Democrats would keep the White House than that President Obama could get anyone worthwhile confirmed—and lost her political bet with the actuarial tables. There’s something unseemly...

Curious Objects: Mystery Box Bright young antiques dealers Pippa Biddle and Benjamin Davidson come on the pod to talk treasure—specifically, a homely wooden box that punches above its weight, thanks to its curious Revolutionary War provenance and a Herman Melville connection. Also—music to the ears during this holiday season—the pair sings the praises of untrammeled accumulation as an interior design strategy. The 250-year-old box with a Revolutionary War secret inside. Photograph by Benjamin Davidson. The 1726 Ridgely House in Dover, Delaware, in a photograph after 1933. Library of C...

At once fascinating, fun and scholarly, ‘Gin’ distills appreciation for an enduring quaff Shonna Milliken Humphrey has written a memoir, a novel and now an ode to gin. By Thomas Urquhart Share Some years ago, I discovered Greenall’s gin – on special at Heathrow’s Duty Free shop. It was love at first sip. From then on, a bottle was a prize from every trip abroad. Until last January. At the airport, Greenall’s was everywhere I looked: wild berry gin, blueberry gin, blood orange and fig gin. But of the “classic London Dry Gin handcrafted by England’s oldest gin distillery since...

Do this because, you know, people in the medical community don't want to take less money. so it's hard to see how a congress that is united in wanting to do something fairly small could do something as dramatically large as medicare for all. we sort of had an object lesson just these last few months in how difficult this is. >> and we know from the recent kaiser family foundation poll, americans who support medicare for all, overwhelming majority i would say 54% favor medicare for all. 43% oppose it. elizabeth warren, though, appears to have shifted her language when discussing the issue of he...

Is the party of taking away your private health insurance, this is the party of punishing you for practicing your faith in the way you see fit. beto o'rourke is down at 1, 2%. he is gobbling up a lot of time in these debates and a lot of the conversation on the republican side is being held up to serve an avatar for leftist ideas. >> beto o'rourke is a good object lesson in the way we cover these debates. we come on the air in the morning -- poor karine was here until 2:00 this morning. the papers are filled with grades for each and every deb debate. if you stop and think about the reaction to...