There is a sympathetic gloss on the media’s horribly botched coverage of the 2016 elections that is not entirely without merit. Donald Trump, one could argue, was so unprecedentedly unfit that t
I’ve found a lot of the discussion about Trump’s contempt for democratic norms frustrating. These discussions can sidetracked into various objections — most notably, the point raised
I guess not all of the plot twists can be unpredictable: Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone privately inquired about damaging information on Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange befor
I was lucky enough to be on The Sound and the Furious Podcast last week, with scholars seeking to combine academia and pop culture in ways that reach out to a broad audience. The subject was “Th
As Paul observed below, Donald Trump has informed Kim Jong-un that no, he’s dumping him and he never liked him anyway and it’s not me, it’s you. This is an eminently unsurprising out
First the good news: Stacey Abrams–perhaps the most “shit is squared away” candidate I’ve seen in awhile won the Democratic nomination for Governor. Now the bad news: She may b
Katherine Stone has, as you would expect, a terrific post about the Epic Systems decision: Since 1991, when the Supreme Court held that employment disputes could be subject to a mandatory arbitration
Something I’ve noticed among my leftier-than-thou friends is a continuing tendency to minimize how historically disastrous the Trump presidency actually is. This dovetails nicely with an incre