Mitch Wagner

I’ve struggled with anxiety for most of my life, and anxiety’s close friend is normally depression because by the end of the day you’re so exhausted from the adrenal burnout that you just kind of plummet and get really sad. So I’ve struggled with that. I think more of what I brought is the feeling of never feeling like you’re doing it right. I live... See more

I had so much anxiety when my second was born that the only way I could escape was in stories and books, and in particular the American Revolution. I really lost myself in ideas. That’s always been how I digest feelings.

The American Revolution? Do tell. Well, I read this amazing book called “The Revolutionary” by Stacy Schiff. It’s about Sam Adams.... See more

I want to be clear that I am making something different from an argument for pure moderation: I do not think the Democratic Party should just move right.

It is good that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani run as Democrats, and that Bernie Sanders has become a leader in the Democratic Party. It is good that you can be an out-and-out democratic... See more

Inside the Democratic Party — in its backrooms and its group chats, its conferences and its online flame wars — an increasingly bitter debate has taken hold over what the party needs to become to beat back Trumpism. Does it need to be more populist? More moderate? More socialist? Embrace the abundance agenda? Produce more vertical video?

The answer... See more

Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have. The themes are similar.

Groups living in voluntary isolation have “minimal to no contact with those outside of their own group,” said Dr. Subhra Bhattacharjee, director general of the Forest Stewardship Council and an Indigenous rights expert based in Bonn, Germany. “A simple cold that you and I recover from in a week ... they could die of that cold.”

Beyond disease,... See more