Taken in isolation, any one of them could certainly be dismissed as not significant at all. But the cumulative effect is something else: 2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden mistakenly said during a
It has substantially reduced inequities in the health care system: Five years after the Affordable Care Act took effect, the health-insurance overhaul has narrowed coverage gaps between the rich and p
President Trump on Tuesday suggested that Jewish people who vote for Democrats are either ignorant or disloyal as he railed against two congresswomen who have been critical of the U.S.-Israel all
I really hate this timeline. ETA: Critical initial context here, “in which Barnett sneers at the 1619 project while getting in some Russia trooferism” (thanks Scott): BTW Barnett is curren
In a two part series over at the National Interest, I summarize the history of efforts to build hybrid battleship-aircraft carriers. Part I: Almost as soon as navies began to contemplate the idea of a
This is the grave of John McLoughlin. Born in Quebec in 1784, Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin grew up Catholic, despite a Scots-Irish father. His father married a Quebecois woman and so the boy was baptized
I can’t come up with a better punchline than this: https://t.co/ff9z2PI2YR pic.twitter.com/qyTbYdtv1Z — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 20, 2019
The right-wing freakout over the Times’s 1619 story is supposedly based on the idea that a critical look at the history of slavery in the Americas will lead inevitably to a “delegitimizati