I realize that at this point the fact that the president of the United States is barking mad is a classic dog bites man story -- we're getting used it now -- but his Twitter rantings today are especially unhinged even by his (ab)normal standards....
Author: Paul Campos
Your Republican party in 2020: Now lawmakers are at odds over how much more stimulus is needed, and what form it should take.Democratic senators, like Illinois’ Dick Durbin, have said.
The Labor Department said Friday that the economy shed more than 20.5 million jobs in April, sending the unemployment rate to 14.7 percent — devastation unseen since the Great Depression.The.
This is fine: The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for Trump and his supporters in attacking the FBI’s Russia investigation.The move...
Matt Yglesias lays out nicely in Vox how a mitigation strategy that keeps the pandemic from overwhelming the health care system will save some lives, but still result in probably.
One of the afflictions that beset deeply engaged sports fans is that we retain an enormous mental garbage dump of largely pointless information in our heads. For example, if somebody.
Commenter Phil Koop flagged this really interesting analysis from Natascha Strobl, who has been monitoring the overtly fascist response to COVID-19 on what she characterizes as "extreme right wing sites" around the world, but which here in the US we like to call "the Republican...
Cases are growing by 2 to 4 percent daily, and more than 1,000 people have died each day for over a month. At least 15 children in New York were.
U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he walks to board Air Force One to depart New York for Washington D.C. at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, New.
"Even in this age of ultra-wealth, and in a region [Bel-Air, Los Angeles CA] with no shortage of expensive homes, this one is over the top: 38,000 square feet of living space, 12 bedrooms, 21 bathrooms, three kitchens, a 40-seat movie theater, an infinity pool...
Mary Ann Vecchio gestures and screams as she kneels by the body of a student lying face down on the campus of Kent State University, Kent, Ohio on May 4,.
Dwight Eisenhower and Prescott Bush Here's a fascinating portrait of how the ruling class in Greenwich, CT -- the holy citadel of America's traditional WASP pseudo-aristocracy -- learned to love.