Politics

This Trump-created crisis and the standoff that ensued give us an early indication of how little the Democratic Party as a whole has changed.

But what reforms come without great pains?/The status quo sneers at balls and chains.

Surveillance video from the event confirms that Trump’s campaign manager abruptly grabbed the reporter’s left arm before violently yanking her backwards, nearly forcing the her to lose her balance.

Trump succeeds until sufficient critical mass unmasks his entire sham narrative as calculated predation, rife with contradictions, violent fulminations, and racist dog whistles. One defeats an immoral storyteller first by exposing the corrosive storyline, then the nasty, arrogant charlatan who presumes his black magic can gain him the riches of the White House. The only way to defeat such a crock is a sustained public assault on his entire narrative form, a tissue of deceptions whose “plot” is all about surpassing the last whopper. Focus on the formulas and creepy assumptions, not just lying details.

That’s Thorstein Veblen, the greatest American thinker you probably never heard of (or forgot).

Insurmountable obstacles to removal entomb our most discredited election, another knife in the heart of democracy.

“Today’s decision can only cause one to wonder which cases the Court will overrule next.”

We are beyond shock and awe, awaiting indictments, then trials, by inexplicably sluggish prosecutors.

'Republicans told millions of Americans who use insulin to go to hell.'

Donald Trump’s three appointments to the court—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—cemented in place a rightward shift in its center of gravity that had begun decades earlier.