To say the least, it's an uphill battle for even Sherrod Brown to win in Ohio at this point, but I am glad he is giving it a shot because if he can't, no one can. Former Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown has told Democratic allies that...
Donald Trump's pro-worker agenda is leading to him unilaterally stripping collective bargaining rights from government agencies. That includes the Environmental Protection Agency, using national security grounds to justify it. Now,.
David Wallace-Wells and Emily Oster have a conversation [gift link] about RFK Jr.'s tenure as HHS secretary, in which they acknowledge that it's been what they call a worst case.
What's particularly galling about the Republican drive against reproductive freedom is how few of them even believe its ostensible premises: Three years after Starr County prosecutors charged 26-year-old Lizelle Gonzalez with murder for inducing her own abortion, District Attorney Gocha Ramirez swore under oath that when his...
Never miss an opportunity to work battleships into the news cycle: https://bsky.app/profile/laurenmiller.bsky.social/post/3lwa3eltxik2m Look... many people find warships, and especially battleships, to be aesthetically pleasing. From time to time I've decorated.
Not great, Bob. Ukraine surged some of its most combat-hardened forces to the eastern Donetsk region to blunt a Russian advance some fear could lead to a large-scale collapse on that part.
Before Thomas Chatterton Williams's book hits the remainder tables next week, we should appreciate this very fine piece of writing by Andrea Long Chu: On February 18, 1965, students at Cambridge University assembled for a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. on the...
Given some different architectural/security choices, the attack by a member of RFK Jr.'s army of morons would have been a far bigger horror: The man who attacked the CDC headquarters.
Just a little more sparkling authoritarianism for Sam Moyn et al, who still don't like the F word: The nomination is already drawing sharp pushback from economists. Jason Furman, a.
Kari Lake is effectively a hospice agent for VOA. For the first time since VOA was founded, in 1942, to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II, the network went dark in March. In some parts of the world, viewers wondered if the blank screens meant...
There's a bit in The Simpsons where Mr. Burns, the cartoonish evil, i.e., highly realistic, plutocrat who is both incredibly old and apparently immortal, has his survival explained by the.
Today marks the publication of my 4th book, Organizing America: Stories of Americans Who Fought for Justice. It's 20 short biographies of Americans who made a difference. But it's also.