Popular government in the United States has many problems, including its own unpopularity; under the current scheme of things, it is hardly able to function, what with the vast sums of money pouring into elections by secret, deep-pocket donors and election districts being fashioned to suit the ...
The Trump-train hasn鈥檛 even left the station, but it蘑菇视频 already barreled off the tracks.President Trump is under an assortment of investigations, facing plummeting job approval numbers and with ever-growing scrutiny about his seeming inability to tell the truth.And we鈥檙e only 73 days into ...
Genius doesn鈥檛 require being right all the time about all things. It does require a run of brilliance on a fairly consistent basis as well as one or two big achievements.To take a random example, Winston Churchill was a genius. He was flat-out wrong about the future of the British empire in ...
On George Esper蘑菇视频 tombstone at Sylvan Heights Cemetery are these words, carved for all time into granite: 鈥淎nything can be done with love. Anything at all.鈥滻鈥檝e been thinking about Esper and other great newspaper reporters ever since the death of Jimmy Breslin was flashed across the ...
Obamacare was signed into law seven years-ago this Wednesday.Happy anniversary Obamacare!It蘑菇视频 still here, and despite what you鈥檝e heard, it蘑菇视频 still going strong.It has withstood dozens of attempts to repeal and replace it, and a 2012 Supreme Court challenge.Now, though, Republicans ...
The lefties on MSNBC had a fine week, highlighted by Rachael Maddow, who gave the country its first glimpse of Donald Trump蘑菇视频 tax returns. These two pages from 2005 may be all we ever see. The president of the United States has not exactly been forthcoming on this front.Earlier, Chris Hayes ...