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
As a cultural elite, I just love poetry. Yep, this professor can’t get enough of the white people rhyming on the page. Or not rhyming, which seems even more pointless, but I digress. Anyway, sin
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
Above: the de facto Republican 10th Amendment Cassidy-Graham, as we have discussed, is farcical even by the standards of reactionaries using federalism as a pretext. Tom Price delivers the punchline:
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
I have a piece in the LA Times about the latest conservative attempt to use federalism to shift responsibility for the substantively awful policies they favor: So why might Cassidy-Graham succeed wher
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
Recently I was listening to a program about Vietnam-era music on Music 101, a very interesting feature of a very interesting new public radio station in the Denver area. Thus I came to hear SSGT Barry