Eric Levitz has a good summary of the year of progressive legislation passed by the legendarily dysfunctional, corrupt, and reactionary assembly in Albany: Yet it is precisely Albany’s well-earned reputation.
What it reveals about Donald Trump is extremely important, of course, but it shouldn't drown out the fact that the excerpt from E. Jean Carroll's book is a pretty extraordinary.
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria lie on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros,.
This is the grave of James Byrnes. Born in 1882 in Charleston, South Carolina, Byrnes did not come from the type of elite that usually made leading South Carolina politicians..
Today is the sixth anniversary of one of the very worst decisions in the long and largely ignoble history of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appropriately, the 4th.
Rep. Michael Burgess' hero Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Totabuser) delivers the latest Republican response to anyone who has the temerity to suggest that the U.S. is mistreating the children it has.
SMS BAYERN down by the stern and sinking at Scapa Flow. On the occasion of its 100th anniversary, I wrote a short history at the National Interest of the scuttling.
Sarah Jaffe has an outstanding long-form article in The New Republic on the closing of the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. That plant, which I hardly have to tell.
