Month: February 2016
Jeb! Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was not in Iowa on caucus night, but his cash certainly was. The former Florida governor spent more money in Iowa than any other candidate and still los
Rich Juzwiak describes a Ralph Nader rant as a “good one.” It is…not that. It is in fact very, very dumb. The candidates still narrow the agenda. That is, the voters are not propelli
Voters on both sides were sending a clear message of no confidence in the economic order. Who can remember a presidential campaign in which the most extreme candidates have done so well in the first r
On conventional terms, Ben Carson’s cosplaying as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination was a failure, with the 9% of the Iowa caucus vote almost certainly the peak. On its own
My latest at the Diplomat takes a look at a new report on the future of the Chinese navy: Perhaps most interesting, the report identifies several key caveats that underlie China’s effort to build a
This clip sums up my feelings about last night’s Cruz victory.
Flint is not the only American city where governmental failures and mendacity have exposed people to lead. Baltimore has certified houses as lead-free that are not in fact so. When people in Baltimore
- Well don’t trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer
- LGM Film Club, Part 73: You Are On Indian Land
- George Atiyeh
- E Pluribus Something
- Donald Trump with a law degree
- Trump’s COVID catastrophe
- Big 10 Conference: Nothing is more important to us than the welfare of our serfs
- This Day in Labor History: September 16, 2004
- The man who wanted to be on TV
- Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln