Day’s End and Night Watch

by Ed Kilgore
Politics

Yes, Tuesday nights without primaries feel kinda strange. But just seven weeks before the Main Event.

Here are some remains of the day:

* The Scottish independence movement sure hasn’t gotten any encouragement from British media.

* FBI and DHS struggling to explode made-up claims IS is lurking across (or within!) U.S.-Mexico border.

* GOP Senate candidate in Minnesota trying magically to make Al Franken (via Obama) the culprit in recruitment of Minnesotans by IS.

* At Ten Miles Square, Aaron Panofsky discusses the heavily negative reaction to the first major claim in years that racial inequality is mainly genetic.

* At College Guide, Clare McCann reports surprising bipartisan congressional progress towards reauthorization of major federal child care program, the first since 1996.

And in non-political news:

* Not surprising after mega-drought: Wildfires ravaging Northern California.

That’s it for Tuesday. We’ll close with Steppenwolf’s “Draft Resister.”

Selah.

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Ed Kilgore

Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.