The friend and ally Trump thought was worthy of a pardon for being convicted for systematic constitutional violations: The rules of the tent city were strict, arbitrary and brutally enforced. There ar
Joe Arpaio’s tenure as Sheriff was characterized by gratuitous cruelty, racism, incompetence, and systematic violations of constitutional rights. So Donald Trump’s pardon of him was overde
This is the grave of Rutherford B. Hayes. Born in 1822 in Delaware, Ohio, Hayes attended Kenyon College and graduated in 1842. He attended Harvard Law beginning in 1843 and opened his own law practice
On August 26, 1970, the National Organization for Women led the Women’s Strike for Equality. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment’s ratification, it had a number of
There’s a Category 4 hurricane bearing down on Texas right now. So Donald Trump prepares for that in the most Trump way possible–pardoning an open racist. MORE: "After more than fifty
We all know that if you are a ketchup eater, you share the taste of our president. But he’s not the only demagogue proto-fascist who loved ketchup. I’m reading Dan Carter’s The Polit
Above: His Appeal to White Michigan Democrats Was About Economic Anxiety Mark Lilla wrote a very bad op-ed that got a lot of attention. It has now been turned into a quickie book, which Lilla is now d
Look, if you are going to run a government dedicated to ethnic cleansing, the important priority when a hurricane brings catastrophic flooding to south Texas is making sure the people of the Brownsvil