Having much of the United States government either under the direct control of, or considerably influenced by, religious lunatics in the grip of apocalyptic fantasies, is a bad thing. Especially given the similar dynamics in the Middle East.
Author: Paul Campos
Donald Trump goes on trial in Manhattan on Monday, facing criminal charges for falsifying records related to hush money payments to a porn star. Read that sentence again, and then.
The New York Times' editorial page chooses to print it. It probably violates some sacred Law of the Internet to mentally substitute "Germany" for "Russia," and "England" for "Ukraine" when.
A friend suggested I watch a certain TikTok video to get a better understanding of the mental world inhabited by Trumpist intellectuals. I ended up creating a TikTok account in order to do this (not all heroes wear capes), so if by the end of...
Ah the magic of the passive voice: https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1778457092497531236 I wonder how MSNBC got access to that list? I mean it couldn't be via the defendant, because that would require violating.
The criminal complaint filed today in the Shohei Ohtani gambling case looks like very good news for the sport's biggest star. The details are a glimpse into the wild world.
Here's a good interview with counter-terrorism scholar Juliette Kayyem (her speciality is Trump and Trumpism), about what may happen between now and next January. It may be after this election, but I said long ago, I think progressives and Democrats like me, we should be...
Old habits, like democracies, die hard: Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would not sign a federal abortion ban if one reached his desk were he to be elected.
Check out the lede to the NYT story on the new CPI number: A closely watched measure of inflation remained stronger than expected in March, worrying news for Federal Reserve.
Here's a weird little bit of historical arcana: the 1912 Republican presidential ticket featured a dead man on the ballot. William Howard Taft's vice president James Sherman died just eight days before the election, and there was apparently no formal provision to deal with this...
A certain Germanophile, whose name I do not wish to remember, came to my house that day. Standing in the doorway, he announced the dreadful news: the Nazi armies had.
At some point you just have to laugh: The little-known insurance company that rescued Donald Trump by providing a last-minute $175 million bank fraud bond isn’t just unlicensed in New York; it hasn’t even been vetted.