Cassidy-Graham, an extraordinarily bad and dishonest legislative proposal that might pass the Senate next week, managed to acquire a certain veneer of moderation. The con has three major steps. First,
I haven’t yet decided whether to watch the new Ken Burns series on the Vietnam War (“What? No Shelby Foote? Count me out”), but it has generated some good content. Here’s G
Patrik Hermansson infiltrated groups in the U.K. and the U.S. to find out. One sunny Saturday in June, I joined the list of speakers at one of these forums in Seattle. I had intended to attend as a gu
Sure Donald Trump is a racist misogynist homophobe with the goal of repealing a half-century of civil rights legislation. But would Obama have brought actual vampires such as Peter Thiel into his admi
Jimmy Kimmel’s response to the truly disgusting bait-and-switch being offered by Senate Republicans is remarkable, particularly given the powerful incentives of late night hosts to play Both Sid
The reality of climate change is that a global disaster created almost entirely by rich white people in the Global North is going to disproportionately affect the poor of the Global South who had almo
This is the grave of William Lloyd Garrison. Born in 1805 in Newburyport, Massachusetts to dirt poor parents. His father, a sailor unemployed due to the Embargo Act of 1807, the single worst foreign p
You need to call Lindsey Graham and tell him you win the Trio of things no one wants contest. Sen. Lindsey Graham says he has a disparate trio of supporters for his last-gasp attempt to repeal the Aff