This is the grave of Jim Fisk. Born in 1835 in Pownal, Vermont, Fisk was a rough kid who ran away from home at the age of 15 to join the circus. He did this for awhile, then took a job in a hotel, and then,...
Kevin McCarthy, the man who ascended to the top of the House Republican conference despite widespread agreement even within that conference that he is an abject moron, appeared with the.
Biden has surpassed most left-leaning people's expectations on economic issues. Yes, there are things to critique and lots of work to be done, but honestly, he's been better on these.
The belief that they are entitled to rule even if voters prefer Democrats is now the overriding commitment of the Republican Party: Absent an overwhelming mobilization by Democrats, Republicans have a good chance of winning the House in 2022. Redistricting alone will probably give them several new seats....
Marjorie Taylor Greene isn't just crazy in the sense in believing in every conspiracy theory the wingnut puke funnel sends down the pike, she's just flat-out crazy: Republican Rep. Marjorie.
I wanted to go back to what we were talking about two days ago, on the issue of rethinking work in the context of the pandemic. Unlike other employment shortages,.
Since white parents will do everything possible to not send their kids to schools with Black kids (well, maybe one or two from upper middle class backgrounds so that little Connor and Maddie can have just the right kind of diversity in their lives), what if,...
I chafe at the idea that people not having a bunch of children is a problem, since especially in the developed world, it's basically a prerequisite to fighting climate change..
So often, we frame the fight against climate change as a series of consumer decisions. That's not completely inaccurate; certainly consumer decisions are part of the problem. But it goes.
Some modestly good news here: In recent weeks, though, there’s been a question about how close we might get to true herd immunity, the state in which so many people are immune to the virus — mostly due to vaccinations — that it can’t spread easily...
This is the grave of John C. Fremont. Born in 1813 in Savannah, Fremont grew up in scandal. His father was a teacher from Canada, hired by a Georgia planter.
Leave it to Bari Weiss to give a classic demonstration of the utter incoherence of how "cancel culture" fanatics think about the concept of "free speech": The world has gone.