One of the least appealing things to me about liberals during this election has been the gleeful dismissal of the white working class, the open desire to not have to think about them anymore in some sort of new Democratic Party that does not need...
Month: November 2016
Say what you will about the many, many, many failings of the United States over its 200+ years of existence, it's largely been relatively stable. And there's a reason why..
The NYT's Upshot has a useful grahpical summary of the major poll aggregators: They all have Clinton between 85% and 99+%, except for the most famous one of all, which.
Scott Michael Green. Court documents show that Greene, an unemployed father who lived in the Des Moines suburb of Urbandale, was increasingly desperate for money in recent weeks. [...] District Judge Carla Schemmel...
Pictured: Donald Trump, Jerry Falwell, Jr., and Playboy Magazine. Class. The best. The company that owns the National Enquirer, a backer of Donald Trump, agreed to pay $150,000 to a.
The near-certain blockade of Democratic Supreme Court nominees by Republican Senates going forward is, of course, just one aspect of the Republican war on the very idea that Democrats might.
PSU received a $2.4 million Clery Act fine, but most of it wasn't for its repeated failures to hand the winningest child rapist over to the police, or conduct some sort of investigation into reports that Sandusky was raping children, or take steps to keep him...
Yglesias breaks it all down in great detail. Here's the tl;dr: Network newscasts have, remarkably, dedicated more airtime to coverage of Clinton’s emails than to all policy issues combined. Cable.
Republicans are not going to break with the consistent, longstanding practices of the McConnell era in order to shift the Court well to the left: The messy scenario involves a.
In an effort to distract myself (and you) from election-related anxiety, I am jumping back into table-top roleplaying games as a Game Master (the referee and main storyteller, for those of you who are new to this) for the first time since 2012. And for my...
When I voted on Sunday I wondered - briefly - what early voting data might cause the press to take a 5 second break from EMAILS! EMAILS! BUT WAIT! THERE'S.
North Carolina's nakedly racist voter suppression program reminds a judge of 1901. North Carolina’s process for challenging voters’ registration seems to harken to a bygone era when fewer safeguards were.