Donald Trump thinks that meeting with a fascist Holocaust denier will not damage his standing within the party, and he is almost certainly correct: Former President Donald Trump hosted white nationali
That’s essentially what we’re presented with in this 2,000-word NYT opinion piece on whether Donald Trump is eligible to be president again, given Section 3 of the 14th amendment, which ba
It was going to be hard to extend in a Senate where every senator has a veto, but the child tax credit in the ARP was great policy: When the history of American hardship is written in some distant dec
When The Fog of War came out, I remember people saying Errol Morris was way too easy on Robert McNamara. But no, I don’t think that’s right. I didn’t then and I still don’t aft
Harsha Walia has an excellent long read at Boston Review thinking hard about borders and immigration restriction, what they really mean, why they exist, and what to do about this evil. A couple of exc
Let this serve as an open thread for Anglo-American athletic antagonism.
Views differ: Writing in the Times yesterday, Pierre Menard makes the intriguing suggestion that Scorsese’s under-appreciated Goncharov is actually a cryptic homage to skepticism about the reali
With the potential rail strike on the horizon, the local ABC station in Providence had me on for an interview about what is going on with the rail unions and what they are demanding. They were in a hu