Sacha Baron Cohen has a new TV show in which he one again goes in disguise and punks people. This new one is going to be very political, from early reports. Sarah Palin and Roy Moore and others are not happy about having been duped...
Author: Simon Balto
Another black man was killed by the Chicago Police Department last night: The shooting happened about 5:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of East 71st Street, according to police and.
Working under the assumption that people could use something to cling to as the world burns, and would maybe like some new music suggestions for the coming holiday, here's the.
This, from McSweeney's, is hilarious: The contagion of incivility: President Trump says undocumented immigrants want to “infest” the United States. His critics respond with vituperative words of their own. — Actual tweet from @nytpolitics, June 20th, 2018, 9:51 PM - - - Trafficking in controversy: some...
Bloomberg reports: The Trump administration plans to announce its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, making good on a pledge to leave a body it has.
Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the final official emancipation of African-descended people from racial slavery in the United States on this day (June 19) in 1865. Far more than the 4th.
I meant to write about this last weekend, but was traveling for a wedding and didn't get to it. In any case, this past Sunday (June 10) marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Terry v. Ohio decision. In Terry, the United States Supreme Court dramatically expanded...
Everyone has no doubt read/seen/heard stories now about Casa Padre, the Brownsville, Texas Walmart-turned-children's-prison that currently houses nearly 1,500 juvenile immigrant boys. About a week and a half ago, Senator.
I haven't lived in Wisconsin in three years now. Still, few things in politics make me happier than Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans failing. WI Senate District 1 flipped 21.
IHOP (International House of Pancakes) recently teased that the restaurant's name would soon be changing to "IHOb." Today they announced that the "b" stood for "burgers": When IHOP said it would change its name to IHOb, the speculation ran rampant: The International House of Breakfast,...
Like all the other writers here, I am very, very pro-labor. (Like all the other writers here, I also understand that labor organizations sometimes make reprehensible political choices and alliances.
While the NFL was embarrassing itself once again yesterday by censoring its players' political speech, a related story was unfolding in the NBA world. Last January, Milwaukee Bucks' player Sterling.