I have nothing real to offer here, but I know I am not the only one fascinated by the fact that the leftist Zohran Mamdani is the one Democrat able to manipulate Trump effectively, even to the point of getting Trump to overrule Stephen Miller...
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I am skeptical (outside of Democrats winning the House and maybe breaking even in the Senate, but that's not really a reckoning), but Michael Tomasky wants to make the case.
The National Security Strategy of the United States was drafted by people who clearly hate America and think it was a tragedy that the Nazis lost World War II. I'd.
Let them eat cake! President Donald Trump has come under fire after he hosted a "Great Gatsby"-themed Halloween party just hours before millions of Americans lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The Friday night fête at Mar-a-Lago was themed "A little party never killed nobody,” according...
Dave Zirin has an interesting essay that not only revisits the commonly held comparisons between The Sopranos and Donald Trump, but goes quite a bit deeper into the issue, including.
We know that Trump is no real friend of the working class, despite the rhetoric that too many fall for. But there's the real details here that drive you crazy..
Javier Milei is not on the ballot today; this is something of an American-style midterm election. But of course his agenda and leadership, and assessments thereof, will obviously play a major role in today's outcome. As with the US, 1/3 of the Argentinian Senate is...
Does anyone else find it... interesting... that the price estimates for the ballroom are $200–220 million — and amount that is almost certainly too low — and Trump is talking.
Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/ice-cubes-434259/ There's been a lot of recent discussion, including here, about the value of routine pro-democracy protests. They matter for a lot of reasons, but a lot.
Source: The Economist, Global Democracy Index, 2025 I haven't been doing due diligence in following news in other countries, in large part because developments in the United States exhaust so much of my mental bandwidth. But I was dimly aware that, over in Türkiye (aka...
The least compelling court case in global history would be Donald Trump suing the New York Times for publishing his letter to Epstein. Which doesn't mean the Times won't cave.
The Wall Street Journal has released a copy of the birthday letter that our president claims is a hoax. Do you all remember the fake one that circulated not long.