What an absolute disgrace this Supreme Court is: Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Wisconsin Republicans on a separate issue, voting along ideological lines 5-4 to overturn a lower f
Somehow, the word “delusional” seems inadequate to dead-enders who insist that Bernie in fact ran a brilliant campaign that was thwarted by completely unforeseeable events: Over the last t
Apropos of the striking comparisons between the 2000 and 2016 election campaigns, I had a brief Twitter thread today inspired by the discussion of David Foster Wallace’s fawning, overpraised ess
This is the most that anyone has cared about what has happened on a USN aircraft carrier for a good long time. Lotta folks asking me what I think about Captain Crozier’s relief. The short answer
The recently acquired weapon of precision bombing gave us an instrument which could cause collapse of this industrial fabric by depriving the web of certain essential elements… The always essent
We live in a deeply and fundamentally racist nation. This is in evidence across a wide range of measures of inequality, from wealth to homeownership, incarceration to life expectancy. This has also lo
Donald the Economic Populist Dove is proposing some more socialisms: Despite the early struggles in getting the stimulus program launched, the Trump administration has begun deliberations on an additi
When the United States entered World War I in the spring of 1917, the Allies hoped that the mere promise of a flood of US troops would unsettle Germany and force and end to the war. The Army itself ha