Former Obama deputy assistant and Biden national security advisor asks an important question and a former CIA deputy director responds:

He’s not always in front of the camera— Wilmore does a lot of work writing and producing. He’s currently a producer on Black-ish, and is really involved with Insecure— he’s the co-creator, producer, and writes for the show too.

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Oof. So many “didn’t happen” responses. We’ve managed to keep the vast majority of our kid free friends after having a kiddo. Couple things I would suggest - find an activity. Each of you, once a week or so that gets you out of the house and connecting with your friends. Also, figure out your plans for babysitting…

I wish I had known more about the “keeping up with the Jonses” effect, and that people who seem successful on the outside may have deep financial problems lurking behind closed doors. Luckily my mistakes were during college when my access to credit was fairly limited and I was debt free (including student loans) in 3…

Check that lifestyle creep. In the past decade I have doubled my salary (yay!) and really struggled with the lifestyle creep. Another pair of designer sunglasses? Check. Stupidly expensive shoes that I will wear five times? Got ‘em. I’m actually not sure how to beat the lifestyle creep, since I clearly suck at it, but…

I wish I had listened to: take 10 to 15% of your gross pay and put it into a retirement savings account (most countries have their own names for it). Occassionally, rebalance what it is invested in. Even in today’s low growth economies you will be much further ahead in 20-30-40 years.

Don’t be a poser. Don’t spend money on both the way you really live and the way you, or others, say you should live.

If you start to automatically save a little bit at a time from each paycheck, you won’t even notice it’s gone. You really won’t. Then you can increase gradually and you will be shocked how much you can save before you start to notice it. Can you afford $5 transferred to a separate savings account every Tuesday and…

Roth IRA contributions. The impact of starting a Roth early in your career and continuing to add to it can create a substantial tax-free retirement savings. Plus the ability to take out those funds if you need to later on without penalty.

Oh, do not ever ever ever take more money than you need to from student loans. School, books, housing. Get a job for everything else. It is so tempting take the full amount but just don’t.

The best changes I ever made were swapping out the showerheads, updating the bathroom fan switches with timers, hanging blackout curtains in the bedrooms, and hanging sun shades in the yard.

Jordan, rest in peace.

So you’re just going to ignore that over half of white women who voted did so for Trump? Let me guess...you’re a white a woman. Nah, bitch. This ain’t Jezebel. We don’t play that white-women-are-babes-in-the-woods-and-don’t-know-nothing-‘bout no-racism game over here. Go talk to your kin because your tears are…

I am currently pregnant. I had no idea I could get more pro-choice but here I am. I’m so happy I’m pregnant. But nobody should have to go through this who doesn’t want to do so. The argument that “somebody out there wants a baby” truly disgusts me. We aren’t baby factories and it’s not anybody’s responsibility to…

Adoption is an alternative to parenting, not pregnancy.

And there’s already a foster care system that needs to be severely overhauled so that kids that end up there and in limbo due to their biological families getting chance after chance to keep fucking up, can actually get adopted out into stable homes.

This isn’t always true. There are more children awaiting adoption than adoptive parents in the US right now. Additionally, while there are a lot of people waiting for babies, that in itself is no indication that they are good people who will make good parents. I don’t trust strangers, or the state to vet them. I am…

I so agree - you know it’s always the women demanding sex in any relationship. plus women are paid more at their jobs than men, and it’s always those poor men who are responsible for buying those expensive birth control pills and remembering to take them. And men usually get stuck with the breast feeding and raising…

Folks are out here really struggling financially, mentally, and emotionally just trying to be a person. Some don’t have running water, they have no support.