Long Links

As usual, offering more long-form stuff here than any one person should be expected to read all of, hoping that a few of the choices will improve your day. This time out it’s almost all politics, but that’s the way the world is. And some of the politics aren’t American!

Some of these are paywalled, sorry. And the whole thing is kind of long so if you’re in a hurry, you might want to jump to the last section, entitled Wonderful things.

Social media · Here’s a real treat. Perhaps the premiere example of a blog that’s grown happily from a one-man operation to a successful and sustainable small business would be Talking Points Memo. It provides what I think is about the deepest carefully-reported coverage of the American progressive scene available anywhere. I’ve been a subscriber for years.

They’re celebrating their 25th anniversary and, to celebrate, have been working on a history of blogging: Pivots, Trolls, & Blogrolls. Contributors so far: Sarah Jaffe, Matt Pearce, Brian Beutler, Kylie Cheung, Megan Greenwell, David Weigel, Jon Allsop, Adam Mahoney, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Max Rivlin-Nadler, Bhaskar Sunkara, Hamilton Nolan, Ana Marie Cox, Marisa Kabas,