Let’s look to the future. Today, more than most days in the past, really does feel like the wheels are coming off. Once the chaos is no longer driving the day, we are going to have to make many changes. This thread caught my eye over...
Bird-banding may not seem like the most important casualty of Trumpism and maybe it's not. But it is a casualty nonetheless and a sign of just how stupid this nation.
Immigration is the purview of the federal government. That's bad enough right now, but right wing states are embracing taking over much of this with ideas of punishment and torture.
Donald Trump is intellectually a dull normal 15 year old, and emotionally a poorly socialized five year old. My friend Steve: Eventful 48 hours on the Trump feed. Regime change now to a dozen memes about him bringing peace to the people of Earth with a...
I remain unconvinced by anyone who says that their personal political positions are the best route back to power for Democrats. But I remain highly convinced that one huge problem.
Well this is just sad. This is what happens when people who have no experience negotiating cease-fires try to negotiate a cease-fire. Anyway, some brief thoughts on what we can.
This is the grave of Jai Hyon Lee. So I don't have a heck of a lot to say here outside of this grave itself. If I'm looking for a grave and someone shouts to me from their gravestone that they were important, well, who am...
POTUS says yes. Iran says not yet. President Trump said on social media on Monday that Israel and Iran had agreed to a cease-fire after more than a week of.
Sotomayor's dissent should be read in its entirety, but let's start with the fact that this kind of relief -- staying two lower court opinions -- is only supposed to.
This report [free link] on the destruction of USAID is a chillingly instructive window into the Trumpian mode of governance. The process started with a vague executive order, and the original idea wasn't to end USAID (which had survived the first Trump administration with the strong...
In his short address Saturday night on the strikes against Iran, President Trump said “Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated." Of course, at that point it’s.
When Erik and I did Matthew Sheffield's Flux podcast last week, I ran into a podcast Sheffield had done a couple of weeks earlier with University of Chicago political scientist.