I'm on a two week trip to London and Ireland (yes, there will be UK graves and no, grave donations did not pay for them, not sure that the $20 a month I'm getting these days quite sent me here....) and so am getting more European...
Wha huh? The U.S. Air Force is looking to buy two Tesla Cybertrucks for use as targets for precision munitions during testing and training. The service says it needs these vehicles for this purpose.
Worse than the tariffs themselves, as Krugman observes, is that the mental acuity and policy detail candidate has no idea what's even in the deals he's agreeing to: On Tuesday.
After watching The Discourse yesterday on dropping the atom bombs in World War II, I think it’s time to piss off most of the commentariat and front pagers. Alex Wellerstein has carefully researched President Harry Truman’s role in that action, which contributed to the end of...
The day is here: President Trump’s punishing new tariffs on more than 90 countries snapped into place after the stroke of midnight Thursday, the latest escalation in a global trade.
Last night I watched Denial, the 2016 film about the David Irving-Deborah Lipstadt libel trial. It's a pretty good film about an extremely important subject, which is the crisis of.
I need few material possessions, outside of my books. So I've driven a 2010 Ford Focus for the last 12 years. But it's starting to fade and we have a nephew who just graduated from college and needed an old car to get by for awhile,...
Glad Mark Penn was Bill and Hillary Clinton's buddy all those years, he's been so great for Democrats! President Trump may have moved out of New York City, but he.
This is the most authentically Appalachian Hillbilly thing that JD Vance has ever done: JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the.
This dead horse must be tired of getting exhumed: The Trump administration pushed to unveil a highly classified document on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election after an intense behind-the-scenes struggle over secrecy, which ended in late July when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released...
Just wanted to quickly build on Farley's post from earlier today. It's the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb and that deserves more play, though as anniversaries move from beyond.
I've been re-reading Neil Postman's essential cultural critique Amusing Ourselves to Death. On the 40th anniversary of its initial publication, it's more relevant than ever. Postman died in 2002, and.