Travel day; link round-up

I'm heading back to the East Coast tonight to continue research for my current project, so my time today is very constrained. I hope I remember to keep these browser windows open for the plane:

• 538 examines why, a full year later, the 2016 election just won't go away.
• James Bridle says something is wrong on the Internet.
• Josh Marshall continues to bang the drum on President Trump's creeping authoritarianism. (Or, you know, not so much creeping as shambling, with all the zombie implications in the term. Says Marshall, "[I]ncompetence and authoritarian aren’t in tension. They tend to operate together, each catalyzing each other as both cause and effect.")
• On the same theme, yesterday the President called Chicago a "total disaster" because he doesn't understand how the lack of Federal gun laws makes our local regulations irrelevant.
• Last Friday, Andrew Sullivan wrote that the Democrats are failing the resistance. But Jeet Heer thinks our party's internecine conflicts are good for the party.
• Crain's Chicago Business lists the most indulgent dishes in Chicago.
• Chicago Magazine investigates the rash of suicides-by-train plaguing the area.
• WaPo describes the weirdness behind the attack on Senator Rand Paul over the weekend.
• Writing for CityLab, Carolyn Adolph says Seattle has fallen out of love with Amazon, with some implications for Chicago.
• Finally, Samuel Adams now has a $200 beer at 28 ABV. Not sure if I'll ever try it.

So much to do today...and then a short, relaxing, upgraded flight to BWI.