As a person who writes about politics and social issues and the intersection thereof, I spend a lot of time dealing with the right-wing. It's unpleasant. I talk to Tea Partiers (not so many of those anymore), Trumpers (lots of those these days, of course), "Constitutional ...read more

In an astonishing performance that calculated to have maximum impact in today's social media age, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez dismantled America's corrupt political system in 5 minutes flat.  Speaking at an Oversight Committee hearing on H.R. 1, the Democrats' ethics bill, Rep. ...read more

For those of you too young to remember, Eddie Haskell was a character on the old Leave It To Beaver show. He was an adolescent pal of Wally, Beaver's older brother, and he was an unapologetic dick who routinely bullied "The Beav." But when Wally's and Beaver's parents were home, ...read more

Righteous, fuming, long bottled up anger when finally released does not have an attractive history. Just look at the Union Army’s burning of Atlanta, Mussolini’s fate at the hands of a raging Italian crowd, the shaved heads of French women who consorted with the Nazis, Saddam ...read more

By now it's an undeniable fact that Donald Trump's most reliable advisers are Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Lou Dobbs, and Sean Hannity. Maybe toss Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro into that basket as well. For quite some time, we've all hypothesized that Trump gets his twisted ...read more

Lost in the fire-hose of news from the Trump shutdown and its humiliating ending for Republicans was a report about the deliberate nature of the disaster at the border: Following reports on Thursday that federal officials forcibly separated thousands more migrant children from ...read more