If only the typical American political reporter understood Ryan as well as the Onion does: As our nation struggles to come to grips with the horrible tragedy in Las Vegas, it’s only natural for peop
I finally finished binging Game of Thrones– I’m all caught up! Season 7 was a doozy and I have some thoughts: On a show where a main plot thread is an incestuous decades-long affair betwe
When I was a but a lad, my father offered me some sage advice. “Son,” he said, “you always want the Republicans to nominate their best candidate, because whomever they nominate has a
My link to the American People has been ruptured because Sky Broadband seems to not understand the purpose of its company. I have been unable to reliably use the internet for all but the simplest of t
At least until tRump taps him for the HHS secretary spot.
I approve of this “artists Scott Lemieux reveres” trend in the Nobel Prize for Literature. Dwight Garner has a good appraisal: He creates worlds that are clear in a sentence-by-sentence wa
As Erik has pointed out, it is an excellent thing that political pressure from activists has shifted the Democratic Party leftward on major issues like single-payer health care. However, every advance
I have little interest in the battles among the left over whether Ta-Nehisi Coates is a useful figure or not, battles that are as much about jealousy than anything substantive. But I found this discus