"I hope they listen to the president" --A. Cuomo "The president is right: a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani," Cuomo says on 77WABC radio in response to Trump's words of support just posted on Truth Social. "Now it's gonna be up to the...
I think that tomorrow's elections are going to cause a major panic in Trumpland. This is not because the results will, to normal people, be some sort of blue tsunami.
Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 1949 I’ve taken some steps to try to claw back my ability to think from the daily chaos. One is to avoid reading material that is clearly.
Something about this whole story says decadent with a capital D: At the same time that CBS is being slammed with layoffs, an awkward number is circulating around the halls of the Tiffany Network. Page Six hears that as staffers watch their colleagues pack up their...
And not by providing good journalism. For doing the opposite, which is her job: CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an exclusive interview with Donald Trump on Sunday, but the news magazine cut out.
Let them eat cake! President Donald Trump has come under fire after he hosted a "Great Gatsby"-themed Halloween party just hours before millions of Americans lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
There's a strong argument that, in an alternate universe where Joe Biden chose Doug Jones or similar to be his AG rather than Merrick Garland, it ultimately wouldn't have made any real difference, because both Congress and the entire federal judiciary, and most especially the SCOTUS,...
Mikie Sherill should be waltzing to victory. And she probably will win the governor of New Jersey race tomorrow, but it's hardly the kind of statement that Democrats will be.
This is the type of history--you know, exploring what really happened instead of repeating bullshit myths--that leads to Chris Rufo demanding personal control over all of higher education. Because, you.
M. Gessen (gift link) has a sobering piece on complicity and resistance within nations in which egregiously criminal and immoral behavior has become an overt feature of the government's policies. “In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing,” said Abraham Joshua Heschel,...
There was some consternation when the American Federation of Government Employees calling for Democrats to end the government shutdown. I don't really blame AFGE for this--the union exists for the.
Last week I had an open day of class (immediate post-midterm) that I treated as drop-in classroom office hours. In the midst of grading I decided to throw on House.