The Simpsons is celebrating 30 years on the air. If "celebrate" is the right word for a show that has been pointless to terrible for the last 15 years. In fact, it's been bad for so long that it's almost easy to forget just how wonderful...
You're Theresa May, vaguely accidental Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. You've inherited a flimsy majority in the House of Commons, currently at just 17 seats..
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="220"] Theodor W. Adorno[/caption] "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric..." Theodor W. Adorno (1) An image is worth a.
Solid showing, but not quite the outright majority needed for a runoff: Roughly five hours after polling locations closed, major networks began projecting that Georgia’s 6th District special election would be heading toward a runoff on June 20. That means Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel,...
I've finally forced my way through Sullivan's article that starts out being about Chelsea Clinton but ends with him abusing the Bell Curve gallus gallus domesticus for perhaps the 11.
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I have a long piece in the Boston Review on the complicated relationship between organized labor and the Democratic Party. The basic thesis is that unions have no real choice other than working within the Democratic Party even when the Democratic Party does not pay off...
You know the drill. After every losing presidential campaign, there will be multiple books consisting of random inside baseball anecdotes from the losing campaign. They will get fawning reviews and.
Sure, I roll my eyes at companies saying they can't actually make their products in the United States because they can't get their supply chains here. Well, you can always.
The New York Times may actually have a narrower range of articles concerning the aftermath of the 2016 election than it does on the op-ed page, as it publishes its approximately 798th article on white Trump voters in Rust Belt states since November 8. It's good...
Earl Blumeanuer has a very, very bad idea. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) filed the bill during the House's two-week April recess to empower former presidents and vice presidents of both.
Call your agent! This is a good roundup of the greatest hits of the latest addition to the NYT op-ed page, but I think we have to start with this:.