Probably the most important rule of conventional media discourse in this country is that an accurate description of the contemporary GOP is not possible, because such a description would be so extreme that it would basically blow the standard structure of that discourse to smithereens. For...
As Paul observed yesterday Yglesias has been doing valiant work taking on the Blob and the reporters who repeat their opinions as fact in straight news reports despite their having.
What's going wrong? There wasn’t a single I.C.U. bed available in Alabama on Wednesday, a possible sign of what other states may confront soon amid a deadly surge of new.
This is the grave of Sam Kinison. Born in Yakima, Washington in 1953, Kinison grew up in a hard-core Pentecostal background. They had little money as their father traveled around as a preacher. In 1964, his parents divorced and he was forced to live with his...
I'm sure Erik will have more in his next music notes blog, but one of the true greats of American songwriting has died: Tom T. Hall, a Country Music Hall.
The 1970s was an era of interesting film failures. There was so much going on in the movies during these years that even many of the less successful films had.
James Loewen has died. No scholar has done more to challenge conventional narratives of history and open people's eyes to alternative visions of the past outside of lauding the rich and white and famous since Howard Zinn. Lies My Teacher Told Me is his most famous...
Excellent: The Food and Drug Administration is pushing to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s two-dose Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, further expediting an earlier timeline for licensing the shot, according to people familiar with.
Josh Marshall has a terrific piece, which provides a nuanced take on exactly why the people who write long-form think pieces for fancy liberal(ish) magazines have been so outraged by.
Chotiner has a give-'em-enough-rope interview with David Patraeus, in which he essentially says that the US should stay in Afghanistan forever because the alternative is admitting that the war he kept wanting to escalate didn't accomplish anything: Was there an error somewhere along the way, given...
Local schools are fighting back against Harvard Trump: Ron DeSantis is a governor uninterested in actually governing, a lawyer with little respect for the law, an anti-elitist with an Ivy.
There's good and bad news on the COVID front. In regard to the latter, the three-day moving average for COVID deaths in the USA is now up over 1,000 again..