A perfect paring of terrible people. Michael D. Cohen, the former personal lawyer to President Trump who is under investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, has hired Lanny J. Davis, the Washi
Innovations in ethnic cleansing: Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press h
Jamelle Bouie has a must-read about Republican vote suppression that’s an excellent antidote to the gaslighting of people like David French: The move to denaturalize some citizens is just the la
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Aaron Huertas’s interesting essay on his concept of “reactionary centrists.” Reactionary centrists are putatively liberal or liberalish public i
This is the grave of Eugene Debs. Simply one of the greatest Americans to ever live, Debs was born in 1855 in Terre Haute, Indiana to French immigrants. Although his family was not poor, Debs dropped
I think my face just melted: McArdle’s column is about the flag and the National Anthem. Unlike the Harvard Law communists, she’s in favor of them. But she laments the struggle over the An
There’s plenty to unpack in Trump’s likening of ICE raids to “liberating towns” with military force. Certainly, it aligns with other moments of exclusion and militarization. Me, I’m reminded
I will do a much longer piece about the myths surrounding Roe v. Wade, a remarkable number of which are contained in this column. Leaving aside the policy questions, however, it’s worth noting t