My post below notes that, despite his unconventional open racism/nativism — not to mention his open and explicit misogyny, which I should have — and his gestures at economic populism, Trum
This is the grave of Daniel Burnham. Born in 1846 in Henderson, New York to a Swedenborgian family, as a young man he failed to get into either Harvard or Yale and also failed at an initial attempt to
Krugman on one of the most irritating cliches that gets used constantly irrespective of whether it’s true: “Democrats need to have a positive agenda, not just be against Donald Trump.” How m
Law professor Joan Williams thinks that the reason Donald Trump got elected is because elite white people are contemptuous of their non-elite white fellow voters, and they therefore dismiss the legiti
I will be on the road today, as I prepare to indulge in that greatest of Thanksgiving traditions, professional ice hockey in the longtime NHL hotbed of Las Vegas, Nevada. Since Erik has already taken
This is the grave of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. The parents of FDR, James and Sara Roosevelt were landed elite in Hyde Park, New York, part of the Dutch class of old money that still p
I did a little more digging into Matthew Whitaker’s “non-partisan” advocacy group, which he or his paymasters christened with Orwellian moniker Foundation for Accountability and Civi
Arkansas’ Medicaid Works plan, which is aimed at limiting the reach of the ACA Medicaid expansion, is working as intended. Nannette Ruelle is watching three numbers tick downward as the year c