Newmark's Door

Men voted, women voted, whites voted, and more. (Presumably based on exit polling, but no sources are given.)

Interesting Quora discussion. Yi Sun-Sin was new to me. More on him: "This Admiral Never Lost a Single Vessel . . ."

"Getting to the bottom of some fascinating history".

"In 1969, Judge Macklin Fleming wrote to the dean of Yale Law School about its new racial quota system . . ."

Posted for the list at the end of the media's recent "hoaxes" that comprise the "corporate media’s suicide note". Wow.

"What I’ve come to believe, however, is that what we really see over the course of American history is something more akin to an enduring conservative majority. Note, however, that conservative there is spelled with a small c. Americans fundamentally like stability; our version of a revolution comes in elections where one side or the other rocks the boat too violently."

I should double-check the information in this piece, but, assuming it's correct, the conclusion surprised me.

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT POINT. It took a combination of persistence, intellectual foundation-laying, and grassroots politics, but the progress has been unimaginable by the standards of the 1990s."

Some history on how to measure inflation.

Overall, the official price indexes represent a tremendous intellectual and public achievement, despite the debates that continue to surround their use and interpretation.

Favorable review of Nicole Gelinas, Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car. With this key sentence from the conclusion: "As she chronicles time and again, the supposed experts can get things terribly, terribly wrong."