Jonathan Chait

What do we think will happen as a result of this?

We got to figure that out.

It seems so unbelievably haphazard and stupid.

And if you think behind the scenes, there's actually some mastermind who's got some clever plan, there probably is.

My skepticism about regime change is practical.

It's not moral, right?

So if you told me that we could actually pull off regime change, get the Islamic Republic out and put in some kind of democratic regime in Iran, I'd be all for it.

I'm just, you know, I'm skeptical that we could pull it off, but I would love that to happen.

I do think that it would be nice if we could replace all the dictators in the world with democracies.

I don't think it's easy to do, and I don't think we should try.

But sure, if it worked, that would be great.

So Michigan has a bridge to Canada.

It's a key crossing point.

For decades, it's been privately owned by the Maroon family, and they've done everything they could to prevent competing bridges from being built so that they can collect these absorbent tools.

It's a huge economic sore spot for both Michigan and Canada because it's a key crossing point.

And it backs up.

It's the only way for trucks to get across.

And so they've just spent millions of dollars basically paying off politicians and just preventing any public bridge.

But finally, there was a workaround.

Love capitalism.