How Mark Carney’s bid for economic and strategic resilience is playing out.

It’s hardly the only thing -- but it’s a very important thing!

If history repeats itself, no. If Democrats learn from history, well...

He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.

“No nation can truly call itself a democracy until its leader has dismissed the entire press corps and replaced them with state-run media. Now, instead of Am...

Doing crime

For the next six weeks everyone in American politics will be acting as though the bottom has not fallen out of the GOP.

The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.

Heckuva job you’re doing, Marco Rubio.

“Our founders took years of experience in casino design and timeshare sales and swaddled them together into a first-of-its-kind solution that asks: Do poor p...

He’s just a dear friend we know nothing about!

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What happens when a president has no ideas, runs out of steam, and loses credibility?

“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there was a COMPUTER that could AL...

The only appropriate option is to refuse to accede to his demands.

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

The Trump administration is gutting the pillars of U.S. hegemony one by one.

It isn’t over until the president’s tenor sings.

After 9/11, the U.S. government was over-focused on fighting terrorism, losing sight of other threats. Americans are still living with the consequences.

[Knocks on wall] “Wow—every repair in this house done by the previous owner was completed correctly.”

A career dream dies of shame and embarrassment.

“I just have other interests, I guess, apart from politics. Did I tell you I’m working with the PTA in the school library to remove any books with objectiona...

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

Spoiler alert: it’s going very badly.

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This makes no economic sense, no political sense, and no strategic sense.

I guess we’re gonna find out the real economic outcast!

Year two of the dumbest motherfuckers alive running American foreign policy is proceeding apace.