'Game of Skittles', copy of 1660-68 painting by Pieter de Hooch in the Saint Louis Art Museum via Wikimedia Commons When I was a kid, I spent a fair amount of time visiting my cousin, who lived in Cambridge, MA. He's a few years older...
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I'm sure there are non-MAGA analysts who think that the United States can just move on from the Trump Administration, but I haven't come across any in the wild. Most.
Nothing says "I am a fierce warrior against racism who is aware of all antisemitic traditions" like arguing that (DUDES!) the right would be spreading fewer conspiracies about Jews staring.
Let's start with a spot of good news: the Biden administration has already fired Michael Pack. If that name doesn't ring a bell, he's the partisan hack who wanted to tern the Voice of America, RFE/RL, and other government overseas news services into right-wing propaganda...
Source: The White House from Washington, DC [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons At least, that's the conclusion of an interesting piece in Bloomberg News. The deficit did fall year-on-year in.
Paul Musgrave argues that the effort to prevent Congress from declaring Biden the next president was, in fact, a coup. As I write this a few hours later, rioters incited.
I've graded it. It's honestly kind of weird to see politicians claim that impeaching a president for fomenting insurrection is divisive. It's even weirder to see those same politicians do so in the context of calling their opponents "Communists" and "Marxist" ideologues for... I dunno......
Is there a German word for accusing your perceived enemies of plotting to do exactly what you intend to do? For Trumpian commentators, Democrats and the president’s other critics are.
The Senate overrode Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act earlier today, by an 81-13 vote. Most of the chatter about the bill has focused on its provision to.
My partner – who has a Masters in Russia-Eurasia Studies and extensive work experience in the Former Soviet Union – announced this morning that she's not reading anything else about the Manfort pardon because it's making her nauseous. Frank Foer, who spent the last few...
When I write a long post, there are inevitably things that get left on the table. Sometimes the omissions are deliberate. Sometimes they're inadvertent. My discussion of right-wing attacks on.
Jill Biden does not have a PhD. She has an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. It's an applied doctorate, designed to certify rising administrators in the field of education. Just keep.