One doesn't generally expect to side with Andrew Cuomo against Bill de Blasio. But de Blasio's apparent openness to his police commissioner's terrible idea to tear up the Times Square plazas and turn them back into car sewers deserves serious pushback and Cuomo is right...
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...is, as Helaine Olen observes, also a war on women: Social Security is rightly viewed as a program that provides economic security for all Americans in their old age. But.
Who do you think Donald Trump reminds Alabama voters of? "Donald Trump is telling the truth and people don't always like that," said Donald Kidd, a 73-year-old retired pipe welder.
A Friday evening link to one of my very favorite songs of 2015.
Scott Walker, author of the book-like product Unintimidated, declines to either repudiate or reaffirm his support for ending birthright citizenship. In fairness, stating policy positions hasn't really been working for.
Good on the Gulf Restoration Network for suing the Environmental Protection Agency for not doing its job to regulate the fertilizers and other chemicals that have created the huge biological.
Above: the ancestors of today's anti-immigrant Republicans. As this nation is going through one of its occasional freakouts about immigrants, it's worth looking at how the nation has dealt with immigrants in the past. Specifically, how did the nation start dealing with American born children...
Donald Trump is so ridiculous and so destroying Republican chances to win in 2016, I'm almost convinced he's some sort of Democratic plant produced by the most brilliant political strategists.
Scott Walker has an EXCITING NEW HEALTH CARE PLAN featuring such diverse elements as effectively destroying state regulations, removing most federal regulations, and withdrawing much of the subsidies that would.
I noticed something recently--conspicuous diversity becomes inconspicuous quickly. Here's what I mean: When I watch MSNBC I'll note (approvingly) that a panel is is comprised only of people of color. When I watch "At Midnight" I'll often note (approvingly) that a panel is comprised of only...
I have a couple of good posts I'm going to write when I'm done doing the drudgery of keeping my home and exercising to mitigate my love affair with food..
One of the ways that I can accustom myself to inconvenient phenomena is to imagine that I will stand trial for ethnographic malpractice. An attorney has brought a claim against.