I'm sure many of you are are as sick of this topic as a friend of mine, who responded to some of my musings yesterday with the observation that he "preferred it when Trump wasn't president so we didn't have to spend this amount of...
Author: Paul Campos
Here's an interesting indirect debate between two of our most important critics of the Trumpist disaster, Timothy Snyder and Paul Krugman. The two largely agree that Trumpism is currently in.
Remember when a possibly less than optimal use of cyber-resources decided a presidential election? Misty water-color memories. Brady Tkachuk, the Ottawa Senators captain and a Team USA gold medalist, said he didn't.
This morning's very interesting discussion of trans issues in Trumpworld inspired me to make some edits to one chapter of The Triumph of Stupidity (getting stronger every day): It has always been the case that asking whether Trump believes what he says is true is...
Most times you can't hear them talk -- other times you can: I don't understand trans issues or trans identity. The whole phenomenon is fundamentally opaque to me, in a.
This is the end of Donald Trump's interminable SOTU address to Congress, the nation, and the world: Thomas Jefferson drew his last breath. Just a single long human lifespan separates.
Look I get that the SOTU is DC's annual Super Bowl, but have some self-respect people: https://bsky.app/profile/jkarsh.bsky.social/post/3mfnpwpm6atns Check out this masterful makeup job: https://twitter.com/NewsroomJim/status/2026506305150574742 There are some things you can't hide with lipstick and powder.
I usually don't do this, but if you're going to read just one piece of any length today/this week/this month, I'm imploring you to make it this absolutely astonishing example.
Pam Bondi is close to the top of the list of people in the Trump administration who need to go to prison, although it's a long list, and growing all.
If you want to see tenure being put to good use, read this Veblenesque jeremiad from Johns Hopkins University history professor Francois Furstenberg, about the gross financial recklessness and irresponsibility of his administrative superiors (I have a keen professional and personal interest in just how...
This story seems to be about a previously innocuous young man who suffered some sort of mental break, and ended up getting shot to death because America. The 21-year-old North.
After I made some fun of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for putting his two twentysomething sons in charge of financial behemoth Cantor Fitzgerald, Andrew Gelman and Mark Palko reminded me.