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July 31, 2016 by

My Happy Place Is on a Train, Including Amtrak

This is being written on Amtrak’s Northeast Regional Train 171, in coach, en route from Providence, R.I., to New York. I am in my happy place. I am a trainman. Given a choice, I would ride the rails over any other mode of transport — except flying, when I owned a plane. Something happens to […]

Don’t Let AI Get Away Without Helping You: Iterate

Llewellyn King

I haven’t had a good relationship with the Age of Computing. I don’t understand computers, but I believe they understand me. And that is the problem. The first time I used an ATM machine, I expected it to sneer at my balance — and to do it aloud, so everyone in range could hear. It […]

Democratic Graybeards Detail Tools Trump May Use To Negate Midterms

Llewellyn King

After two long, dark years, there is an optimism afoot among Democrats, many independents, and a few old-school Republicans that the clouds will part and the sun will shine brightly again on Nov. 4. Most votes in the midterms will be counted, and Democrats believe the House will have flipped Democratic with a decent majority. […]

Summer Is Too Important for Politics to Steal

Llewellyn King

If you can get your mind off the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, if you can stop checking your 401(K), which seems to have taken off for the dark side of the moon, if you can turn off the cable news channels and do a quick personal inventory, noting that your arms, legs […]