Month: November 2016
Say what you will about the many, many, many failings of the United States over its 200+ years of existence, it’s largely been relatively stable. And there’s a reason why. The United State
The NYT’s Upshot has a useful grahpical summary of the major poll aggregators: They all have Clinton between 85% and 99+%, except for the most famous one of all, which has Clinton at 65%. Fundam
Pictured: Donald Trump, Jerry Falwell, Jr., and Playboy Magazine. Class. The best. The company that owns the National Enquirer, a backer of Donald Trump, agreed to pay $150,000 to a former Playboy cen
The near-certain blockade of Democratic Supreme Court nominees by Republican Senates going forward is, of course, just one aspect of the Republican war on the very idea that Democrats might legitimate
Yglesias breaks it all down in great detail. Here’s the tl;dr: Network newscasts have, remarkably, dedicated more airtime to coverage of Clinton’s emails than to all policy issues combined. Ca
Republicans are not going to break with the consistent, longstanding practices of the McConnell era in order to shift the Court well to the left: The messy scenario involves a President Hillary Clinto
When I voted on Sunday I wondered – briefly – what early voting data might cause the press to take a 5 second break from EMAILS! EMAILS! BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE EMAILS!! But some que
North Carolina’s nakedly racist voter suppression program reminds a judge of 1901. North Carolina’s process for challenging voters’ registration seems to harken to a bygone era when fewer sa
- 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
- LGM Film Club, Part 72: Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat
- “You fucked up, you thought I was arguing in good faith”
- How bad of a president do you have to be to get Scientific American to endorse your opponent?