Category: Politics

The most cursed phrase in politics over the last decade isn’t “make America great again,” which, while sleazy and destructive in its application, is at […]

Fans of the old Superman comics no doubt remember Bizarro World, the cuboid planet where everything is backward. Denizens of this parallel world are distorted […]

The world—which may be personified with acceptable economy in Larry David writing for the New York Times—is very angry at Bill Maher for having had […]

“Trump just ‘Georgia-ed’ an entire country,” financier Clifford Asness declared this morning about the results of Canada’s parliamentary elections. It’s funny ’cause it’s true. For […]

Congressional Republicans who have been around since 2017 already know the routine: At any moment, the president could—at a public appearance, on social media, or […]

Nearly 100 days into his second term as president, things are clearly not going great for Donald Trump. His administration’s first major domestic undertaking, the […]

So maybe Chuck Schumer was right. Last month the Senate minority leader made an enemy of, well, just about every Democrat in the country when […]

The genuflecting yellowbellies of the Cowards’ Caucus in Congress—which is to say, Republicans as a whole—have groveled mightily in seeking to curry favor with Donald […]

Ask the average political junkie to name a scandal involving Joe Biden’s son Hunter and I bet nine out of 10 would name the same […]

Dear Reader (including the superstitious),   I can’t stand David Hogg, the elvish progressive activist who was recently elected as a vice chair of the […]