Month: February 2020
Talk about whatever. Literally whatever. Politics is fine but bonus points for Not-politics.
This is one of the more ridiculous arguments I’ve seen this primary season: Let’s call Bernie Sanders latest campaign move exactly what it is: Shabby, Bernie, shabby. As he pursues the nominat
During last night’s rally in South Carolina, the DOPUS took a break from rambling about the plot to make him look bad with coronavirus to share an anecdote about a meeting with African-American
Louis Menand’s recent essay on affirmative action is characteristically excellent — I plan to return to its central point in a subsequent post — but it contains this curious passage:
On Halloween 2016, I gave a talk at Brooklyn College with Anna Law about how the courts and Congress would not meaningfully constrain President Donald Trump because they would both be controlled by Re
Trump’s response to the coronavirus has been the same as his response to, well, most things. Claim that he’s got it handled Travel ban Lower interest rates Suggest fiscal stimulus in the form of t
Maybe then he can go on a book tour with Mark Halperin to whine about how nobody will hire them any more, when they committed no crime other than breaking the law repeatedly for decades by sexually ha
In studying urban history, one of the lessons of the disaster of public housing in the mid-twentieth century is that the big housing projects never asked or cared about participation from the people w
- Grift never sleeps
- Latest Russia Update
- You constantly defend right-wing public officials and attack left-wing ones, and for some reason people think of you as a right-winger
- And We Have a Winner…
- Changes in life expectancy in the USA and other peer countries during the pandemic
- DeSantis exorts Disney for its tepid opposition to his homophobic attacks on speech
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,065
- The Assassination of the Seditionist Josh Hawley by the Honorable Brian Schatz
- Tanking is a con
- The university administrator racket