Mike’s Blog Roundup

Tracy Letts in the Criterion Closet
By Steve in Manhattan — November 8, 2025

Annie Asks You - make America Gatsby again?

First Draft - Ross Douthat can go to hell;

Grasping Reality - how prosperity lost the plot;

The Great Consolidation - say what you want about Trump ...

xpostfactoid - CMS spin on the ACA marketplace and threaded through the WaPo.

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