I fail to see why any leftist should ever again listen to a centrist or liberal say that they should shut up and vote for the choice of Democrats when said centrists in New York are all in for Andrew Cuomo after Mamdani kicked his ass...
It seems to me that there should be more parental consent when it comes to the internet, not less. But then I've never been a free speech extremist or warrior..
As another not-a-huge-fan of Gavin Newsom, I agree that he's providing a model of how to respond: While I have plenty of beef with other stuff Newsom has done, this.
From comments in the last few Ukraine posts it seems that folks want some good news, and there is some good news. The ISW assessment has a good rundown of the what's going well and what's going not-so-well. At the Front There's some reason to believe...
For me, this fairly trivial scandal -- although as always imagine if Biden/Hillary/ etc. -- is pretty much a perfect encapsulation of a very key fact about Donald Trump, which.
This is the grave of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Born in 1934 in Sacramento, California, Joan Didion grew up middle class, the daughter of an Army Air Corps.
Maybe prosecutors can get a ham sandwich indicted, but can they get a box of Franzia indicted? Grand jury denials were (until recently) extremely rare www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...[image or embed]— Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) Aug 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM Grand juries not returning indictments is indeed very rare,...
What you're hearing from CNN hype men notwithstanding, Trump is becoming less popular among almost everybody, including the demographics that trended heavily toward Trump in 2024: Today, 38% of Americans.
Billions of dollars a year are now wagered on college basketball legally, while the vast majority of players still get paid basically nothing, despite the new world of NIL deals.
To use the word “negotiations” about tomorrow’s meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, if we consider its historical use for other actions between representatives of their nations, is to commit a category error. Historically, negotiations on ending wars or treaties or trade or any of...
Apparently, uncomfortable-with-Trump conservative pundits have gotten board with "Republicans had to go fash because Obama didn't just let Romney win" and have gone back to "Republicans had to go fash.
It turns out that placing large taxes on imported goods raises prices, almost as if this is the entire point of the policy: Wholesale prices—the cost of goods and services.