Why is the Right So Dumb?
Conservatives across the globe have embraced the logic of the suicide bomber. They will destroy a nascent new order even if they must burn down their own home, and yours.
Democracy In An Age Of Transience
Can a democracy organized around the mediating influence of social capital survive the rise of transience? Can this system function when so few of its brightest, most talented and successful people can name a single local politician? Perhaps, but across the world the results so far don’t look promising.
The Biggest Mystery in the Mueller Report
Miles Davis explained that jazz is about the notes you don’t play. Well, an unplayed note hangs over this otherwise methodical, scripted performance.
No Help Is Coming, What Now?
Abandon the fight for our values on our own block, and the effort we pour into Washington is just pounding sand.
The Old World
A slow visit to Paris was a fine way to remember time.
Deficits Don’t Matter, Until They Do
Government borrowing is good until it isn’t. It is a valuable, wise investment in our future, until it isn’t. So far we’ve piled up our peacetime national debt to wartime levels with few visible consequences. We’ve begun to foolishly imagine that no consequences will come. Rest assured, deficits don’t matter until one day they do.
Tulsi Gabbard Sums Up The Mueller Report in One Paragraph
Everything you need to know about our present political crisis is in that paragraph.
Fun Presidential Trivia
Here’s a chance to test your knowledge of America’s Presidents while learning lessons about history. Hard lessons. Lessons that will challenge your illusions of safety and leave dark stains on your soul.
Using the Trump Tax Cut
It’s easy to feel helpless right now. We decided to give away our tax windfall to people and causes blunting the damage caused by this administration. It felt good, and I highly recommend it.
Bracing for the Mueller Report
As of Friday evening, we know that the Special Counsel has submitted his report to the Attorney General without any indictments of close Trump associates or family members. We do not know what findings or recommendations are in the report. There seem to be three possibilities here. First is that …