The last surviving major leader of the anti-colonial movements of the twentieth century, Robert Mugabe is a prime example of how so many of those leaders went completely off the rails once they took p
David Brooks appears to blame online extremism on yoga pants—and that may not even be the weirdest thing about his most recent column, “I am an Internet Extremist.” I’ve lost faith in
So I’ve been growing increasingly frustrated with the anti-straw campaigns over the past year. And now Kamala Harris is on the train. Yesterday, Shakezula got on the Twitter machine about it: My
Opening day. Let’s make some picks: East: 1. PHI 2. DAL(*) 3. NYG 4. WAS Wentz has had injury issues, and the Eagles lost their security blanket backup. But if Wentz stays healthy this is the be
Thomas Edsall writes about what looks like a very interesting paper regarding a key factor in Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican party: Over the four years during which he has dominated A
Perhaps the strongest passage in Elena Kagan’s unanswerable dissent in Rucho v. Common Cause was this: But in throwing up its hands, the majority misses something under its nose: What it says ca
A bit more than 48 hours ago, I posted an update on the parliamentary dysfunction of British politics and . . . it only got messier in that time. As predicted, with two bills, one seizing control of t
This is an excellent story about a serious environmental problem and the ridiculous lack of meaningful corporate oversight in the United States. Mining is incredibly environmentally destructive and mi