Donnie! Bibi! Evo! Irony alert. They’re all corrupt and they are all prepared to cling to power through lies and force even when their...

Criminals, criminals, everywhere And none that stopped to think Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Crime of the Ancient Panderer A friend, out...

A spokesperson for survivors of the Grenfell tragedy have apologized for saying that Jacob Rees-Mogg “showed a total lack of common...

Discovered recently among the manuscripts of that great English dramatist Willie A. Peakshamers: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...

The latest mass shootings by home-grown American terrorists come during a massive corruption scandal at the organization popularly known...

Two pictures tell a thousand words. In his recent public appearance, Robert Mueller thought he’d been clear, or as clear as the peculiar...

What with global warming to worry about, and Syria, and the Sixth Extinction, we really shouldn’t be spending any of our attention on...

Absurd and repulsive though he is, the vandal Boris Johnson (Pants-on-Fire, Con), who has perhaps done his country more harm than any...

Authoritarianism is on the rise … measurably. Nobel prize-winning economist Angus Deaton has said that one of the most fundamental...

No surprise that the President has rushed to the aid of Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, whose campaign in Mississippi has been threatened by a...

“Oh what fun it all is! Look at the joy on their little faces!” There’s so much being written about threats to democracy that it’s hard...

Should you place a hood over the evil Facebook, blast Twitter out of its tree, and rip up all your Instagrams? You really should,...

After so many headlines about the men who  want to turn the world into kindling and warm their hands over the flames (in just this...

Excellent Op-Ed in the New York Times from a couple of weeks ago by (my once-upon-a-time teacher) Kwame Anthony Appiah, applying his...

I repeat this excellent and precisely chosen adjective from a piece by Frank Rich: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/trump-imp...

Here are seven favorite quotations from historian Timothy Snyder’s superb short book of the same name: When the men with guns who have...

Standing in the crowd at sports events recently, I find the continued singing of the national anthem more and more surreal. “Land of the...

The theme is a growing one – at long last: a crucial fact about American politics, without which little else can be understood, is that...

I’ve thought it for decades, and conservative columnist David Brooks has finally admitted it – sort of: most of the people referred to in...

We are not supposed to speak ill of the dead – apparently, indeed, we are supposed to go on and on about how marvelous the dead were. And...