Whenever people say that there's nothing we can do about the global exploitation of labor through supply chains, I say they are wrong because of course we can do something. We can do any number of things, as I have laid out in Out of...
Month: March 2017
It's amazing how happy the media is to be played as patsies by con men. CNN reported Wednesday on a senior administration official admitting that the White House intentionally misled.
Above: A 21st century Roy Cohn You might think that Jeff Sessions is a neoconfederate who perjured himself. But perhaps he's a noble resister of THE NEW MCCARTHYISM: This..seems like.
The Attorney General isn't just a neoconfederate, he's a crook: Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign...
This has not been the least depressing day in the history of the United States. So to lighten things up a bit, what the hell was with waterbeds in the.
I wasn't that enthusiastic about writing another installment. There's only so much satisfaction from bashing an obvious vanity dissertation. But now I see that some right-wing media outlets are alleging a conspiracy.
Julia Ioffe's article on her interviews with career State Department employees manages to be heartbreaking, appalling, and frightening at the same time. You should read the whole thing, but here are three choice excerpts. First, the evisceration of the professional bureaucracy in favor of barely competent...
Bottom line: Trump's #JointAddress was Steve Bannon on steroids with a smile. — Tom Perez (@TomPerez) March 1, 2017 New DNC chair Tom Perez has a firm grasp of the.
Another feature of breathless "Donald Trump put on a suit and read lines off a teleprompter, he is TRULY AMERICA'S PRESIDENT" coverage will.
The absurd reactions to "Trump performs banal Presidential ritual" all my colleagues here have commented on has reminded me that I meant to link to Jason Kuznicki's smart article last week, riffing on Scott's Seeing Like a State, authoritarianism and legibility: In his landmark book...
Maybe Republicans will rethink allowing refugees from Muslims nations into the United States if they can exploit their labor for nothing, like is happening in Turkey thanks to our benevolent.
To piggyback on the overwhelming disdain everyone else has expressed toward the media reaction for Cheeto's speech last night, Brian Beutler: Trump’s moral and ethical failings are legion. He is.