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🎧 The Daily: Israel’s Indispensable Prime Minister? | New York Times
If re-elected, Benjamin Netanyahu could become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister — and the first to be indicted while in office.
🎧 The Daily: Why Didn’t Mueller Decide on Obstruction? | New York Times
The special counsel came to no conclusion on whether President Trump illegally obstructed justice. The attorney general, a recent political appointee, stepped in.
🎧 The Daily: Coordination: Not Established. Obstruction: More Complicated. | New York Times
What does the Mueller report say? The attorney general offered an early glimpse.
🎧 The Daily: Special Edition: Robert Mueller Submits His Report | New York Times
The investigation that has consumed the country and cast a shadow over the Trump presidency for almost two years has come to a close.
👓 Some on Mueller’s Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed | New York Times
Members of the special counsel’s team have told associates that their findings are more troubling for President Trump than the attorney general indicated.
👓 Trump Lives by Ratings. He Won’t Like This One. | New York Times
The E-Score measures awareness and appeal of individuals in the public eye. President Trump was most often described as “aggressive” and “mean,” according to his scores from December.
🎧 The Daily: ‘Trump of the Tropics’: How Brazil’s President Came to Power | New York Times
Jair Bolsonaro spent most of his career on the political fringe, until his message started to resonate with a country reeling from economic hardship and a widespread corruption scandal.
Monday on the NewsHour, Republicans say the Mueller report exonerates President Trump, as Democrats insist the full report must be shared with Congress and the public. Plus: Analyzing the Mueller report with Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Kellyanne Conway, how Russia intervened in U.S. elections, legal analysis of the Barr summary, the latest on Brexit and Roger Rosenblatt on reacting to the news.
👓 The Worst Design Of 2016 Was Also The Most Effective | FastCo Design
Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hat was pervasive, potent, and deeply misunderstood.
👓 The worst design of 2016 was also the most effective | Duncan Stephen
The worst design of 2016 was also the most effective — Diana Budds, Fast Company
Why Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again hat, was a wildly successful design, despite being reviled by gatekeepers of good-taste design.
The “undesigned” hat represented this everyman sensibility, while Hillary [Clinton]’s high-design branding — which was disciplined, systematic, and well-executed — embodied the establishment narrative that Trump railed against and that Middle America felt had failed them. “The DIY nature of the hat embodies the wares of a ‘self-made man’ and intentionally distances itself from well-established and unassailable high-design brand systems of Hillary and Obama,” Young says. “Tasteful design becomes suspect… The trucker cap is as American as apple pie and baseball.”
This reminds me of the story that the most “tasteful” office spaces are less productive. When given a clean-looking office cubicle, people fill it with garden gnomes.
I don’t agree with the article’s premise that this challenges the idea of design thinking. Surely it means that Hillary Clinton’s designers simply didn’t do a good enough job at it (because nice typefaces ≠ design thinking).
But this does provide a challenge to the received wisdom of what good design is, and whether tasteful design is desirable.
🎧 The Daily: Part 3: What to Expect When You’re Expecting (the Mueller Report) | New York Times
A conversation with Representative Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, about how Congress is preparing for the results of the special counsel investigation.
Republicans should be acting in a manner as if they actually believed in the Golden Rule as they’re soon going to be wishing they had done the same while they were in power.
🎧 The Daily: Part 2: What to Expect When You’re Expecting (the Mueller Report) | New York Times
We look at three possible outcomes of the special counsel investigation, which is believed to be wrapping up soon.
🎧 The Daily: Part 1: What to Expect When You’re Expecting (the Mueller Report) | New York Times
The special counsel is said to be preparing to deliver a report on the results of the Russia investigation. What happens next?