This is really interesting: In the mid-2000s, a political scientist approached the neuroscientist Read Montague with a radical proposal. He and his colleagues had evidence, he said, that political ori
This would be the biggest scandal in all but about two previous presidencies, but it wouldn’t even break the top ten of the Trump administration’s greatest grifting hits: Federal prosecuto
The great baseball player Frank Robinson has died. Robinson was the first man to win the Most Valuable Player award in both major leagues. He was also the first black MLB manager. A story about ho
Vanessa Tyson has released a statement about her encounter with Justin Fairfax. Warning: contains a graphic description of sexual violence. I really just don’t know what to say at this point. OK
This is getting really ugly: Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax issued a statement early Monday denying a sexual assault allegation that appeared on the same conservative website that posted a racist ph
Look what Trump has done to the deficit. Following a substantial narrowing after the financial-crisis, it’s set to explode to more than $2 trillion thanks to Republican tax cuts and bipartisan spend
(1) The debate regarding whether Northam should resign seems based on some implicit assumption that there’s some sort of real political cost to Democrats/progressives if he does. That assump
Howard Schultz’s bizarre explosion onto the national political scene raises a number of questions. (By the way, if Schultz’s campaign actually goes anywhere, somebody needs to check out ex