TNR 1st Issue Post Everything Turmoil Musings: Maternity Leave, Liberal Politics

OK, I have just finished reading The New Republic's first print issue under the new regime.  I am disappointed that they will publish only 1 issue a month and have not, as yet, extended our subscription to reflect the issues we have and will not received.

But, as for the content, I found a sufficient number of interesting articles to read that I would consider continuing my subscription for the right price.  And perhaps, I should use our electronic access to the website.

There was an interesting article on the state of conflict in the reality of motherhood and the necessity for women to work (both in terms of the stability of family and overall economic strength).  What struck me reading the article is the widespread support for formal maternity policies from people under 40 and the widespread opposition to formal maternity policies from white men over 40.

There was also too long an article on Uruguay's outgoing President.  My takeaway was liberal politicians risk getting too little done because they try accomplish too much across a wide breadth of issues.  This is what happened to President Jose Mujica.  Conservatives don't suffer from this because their focus is always on cutting taxes and reducing regulation.  They don't care about anything else.  But for liberals to tackle anything else, they have to overcome both conservative opposition and the need to convince the center that the details of the proposal make sense.  This takes an enormous effort  and requires concentration.  You can't tackle too many issues at once or the effort becomes distracted and doomed to failure because the convincing message is not developed.  Rescuing the economy, fighting terrorist Jihad, Dodd Frank and the Affordable Health Care Act doomed Cap & Trade and Tax Reform.  One president can only accomplish so much because they must run the government and can only focus on policy change in a limited number of ways.

There was also a nice book review of Kim Gordon's new book.  I didn't know she even wrote a book.

I didn't find a movie review and there was no pro-Netanyahu rant at the back of the magazine.