Good post pointing out how Trump has been "joking" about how the testing necessary to get control of the virus is bad because the testing numbers make him look bad for as long as there's been a crisis, and this has clearly been driving his...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Always worth a reminder: Nascent Confederates were candid about their motives; indeed, they trumpeted them to the world. Most states wrote justifications of their decision to rebel, as Jefferson had.
Here is a competent governor: Gov. Jay Inslee Tuesday announced a statewide mandate requiring facial coverings in public to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, as cases again begin.
Bill Barr, longstanding paragon of the Republican establishment, is at least as authoritarian as Donald Trump: A prosecutor who withdrew from the Roger Stone case after Justice Department leaders intervened to recommend a lighter sentence intends to testify before Congress that he and his colleagues...
What if -- and bear with me here for a second -- right-wing authoritarianism is a really bad mode of governance? Without words. pic.twitter.com/twXJoGmnVX— Stefan Rahmstorf (@rahmstorf) June 22, 2020.
Photo by Lesly Juarez on Unsplash If everybody is somewhere between "extremely optimistic" and "in willful denial," at least: Major League Baseball plans to unilaterally issue a 60-game schedule for.
The House is going to pass a D.C. Statehood bill, suggesting that the Democratic leadership is finally starting to understand the realities of our political moment: If the House of Representatives passes a bill granting statehood to the District of Columbia on June 26, as...
Bill Barr's announcement of Geoffrey Berman's resignation before he had actually secured it ended up with Berman's trusted protege rather than the Trump lackey Barr wanted being ensconced in the.
This is a good lede: The bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance.
This story about Pat Nixon being outraged that her husband reneged on his promise to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court -- after he had nominated a conventionally unqualified man out of spite, yet -- is entertaining: The attorney general, however, had problems of...
Apparently you can overestimate the number of people willing to risk choking to death alone to plead public fealty to Daddy Trump: Trump camp trying to manage biggest failure of.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with supporters upon arrival at the Orlando Sanford International Airport, Monday, March 9, 2020 in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) If you thought much of.