Knows too much, thinks even more. Has infinite space in her heart for tea and breakfast for dinner. Really from New York, so always ready to cut a bitch.
According to the entirety of pop culture — which I’m defining as the annual broadcast of It's A Wonderful Life, Hallmark movies, and every version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol — this is the time of year for miracles.
On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump stood at the Capitol and swore an oath that he would preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Since the arrest of Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged with the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the story has been about him as a person.
As the scope of the incoming Trump Administration becomes clear, I want to remind you that two things can be true at the same time: The second Trump Administration will be an absolute calamity, an unmaking of the 20ᵗʰ century, a loss to democracy and autonomy like we have never witnessed; and we will survive it anyway.
It has been a long, bruising, and terrible election season, and with Thanksgiving and the winter holidays right behind it, there is a temptation to set it all aside and find ways to reach commonalities with our families and loved ones.
So far, the incoming Trump Administration has asked a possible sex trafficker to enforce federal law, a quack doctor to oversee healthcare systems, a wrestling executive to administer education, and a man who wants to abolish the income tax to run the most powerful 21st century economy.
OK, I’ll admit that even though it is my job to make sense of politics, to gather thoughts about our government and the problems it’s designed to solve, I have been avoiding the news as much as anyone else since last week.
With just days left until the polls close and we determine the winners of the 2024 Election, media coverage isn’t doing deep dives on the issues, the consequences, or the records of the two candidates at the top of the ticket.
In partnership with United for Democracy. For those of us who remember the time before the pandemic upended our lives (and our capacity for long-term memory), the first Trump term was a chaotic, unpredictable, unhinged mess.
It's hard to remember because she has made it look so easy, but Vice President Kamala Harris has been handed the most difficult task in modern political history.
Last week, Donald Trump attended a convention of Black journalists and was outrageously, undeniably, and horrifically racist, not just to every attendee in the room, but to Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
Three weeks of punishing, public agony for Democratic officeholders, operatives, and voters came to a stunning and incredible end with President Joseph R.
Hidden underneath the coverage of the Democratic debate freak out, there have been a few headlines about the RNC platform and its updated language on abortion.
As a resident of one of the largest and greatest cities on the globe, I am constantly aware of how little I know about the wide array of infrastructure and complex machinery that keeps my existence humming along.
Recently you might have heard that Donald Trump became a convicted felon, found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records, which is (definitely) not good for his electoral chances.
Late last week when I learned that Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Samuel Alito had publicly demonstrated seditionist sympathies in the wake of the Capitol Insurrection on January 6, I wasn't surprised.
Famous for their wide open spaces and small populations, it’s not often that the states of the Upper Plains get a lot of attention, so it’s telling that the most recent national stories out of the region have to do with politicians there being bizarre and disturbing.
When the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated the 1864 abortion ban earlier this month, it looked like the Grand Canyon state would be transported out of the 21st century and back to a time when people were property, the country was torn apart by civil war, and women had no rights any man was bound to respect.
Early this week, protesters around the country organized to stop or delay car traffic in several major cities — San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, and New York — to draw attention to the ongoing horrors in Gaza.
In 2012 we were assured that there were "binders full of women." In 2014, we heard that the "war on women" was an unfair and scurrilous political attack.
This quote is a favorite of everyone from earnest white liberals to “colorblind” conservatives to inveterate racists who wouldn’t stop to spit on a Black person on fire.
I'm not exactly sure what to call half of the nation's governors—insisting that they can contravene and outright ignore federal law whenever the opposition party is in charge—but it's not good.
The longer we pretend that we can bring Trump voters back into the fold, the less time we have to reach people who are actually open to a functioning representative government.
