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Leo Mazzone Was Right About Baseball’s Pitching Problem

4 days ago | theatlantic.com | Michael Powell

Professional baseball has a pitching crisis, as its starters throw harder and faster—and get injured more often. In search of what’s gone wrong with a pillar of this beautiful game, I drove along Lake Hartwell, in South Carolina, and pulled into a dirt driveway, where a baseball wizard by the name of Leo Mazzone greeted me. From 1990 to 2005, he oversaw the Atlanta Braves’ pitching staff, one of the greatest in history.
Are Human-Rights Groups Giving Israel a Fair Hearing?

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Michael Powell

The demonstration in London was like so many others in the past year and a half. A swell of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, tens of thousands of them, banged drums and chanted against Israel. Although this march in early October observed the one-year anniversary of the day Hamas militants broke a cease-fire by invading Israeli territory, the marchers paid no heed to the civilians who were murdered or kidnapped.
Other definitive proxy statements

2 months ago | mx.advfn.com | Michael Powell

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What Trump Is Getting From Eric Adams

Feb 11, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Michael Powell

What a glorious time to be an ethically challenged politician. President Donald Trump began yesterday by pardoning Illinois’s eminently corrupt former Governor Rod R. Blagojevich, who’d tried to auction off a U.S. Senate seat. Last night, Trump extended his mercies to the indicted New York Mayor Eric Adams. The message is twofold and rather elemental: Prosecutors are not to be trusted. And bowing to Trump will yield rewards even for newly minted loyalists.
The Cumulative Toll of Democrats’ Delusions

Nov 9, 2024 | msn.com | Michael Powell

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What Utopian Delusions Did to the Democrats

Nov 9, 2024 | msn.com | Michael Powell

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What Utopian Delusions Did to the Democrats

Nov 9, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Michael Powell

Representative Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat, cut me off before I even finished my question: Congressman, were you— “Surprised? No, I was not surprised,” Torres, who represents a poor and working-class district in the Bronx, told me. “Much of my side in politics, and much of the media, was in a state of self-deception.
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Sep 27, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Michael Powell

Credit is due to indicted New York Mayor Eric Adams. His recent predecessors took multiple terms to become enmeshed in scandal. Adams was elected in November 2021; less than three years later, federal prosecutors have hit him with five felony counts.
Why Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious

Aug 31, 2024 | rsn.org | Michael Powell

A shadow world of secret wealth now threatens us all. We need to shut it down, argues Anne ApplebaumDonald Trump opened Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in 1983 and occupied the penthouse himself. The building was intended to advertise its owner’s wealth, and also to attract other rich tenants — including, ironically, the very secretive rich.
Why Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious

Aug 29, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Michael Powell

The section of Arlington National Cemetery that Donald Trump visited on Monday is both the liveliest and the most achingly sad part of the grand military graveyard, set aside for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Section 60, young widows can be seen using clippers and scissors to groom the grass around their husbands’ tombstones as lots of children run about. Karen Meredith knows the saddest acre in America only too well.