I became a freshman at Northwestern University, right outside Chicago, when Barack Obama ran for president in 2008. He was the first candidate I ever voted for. I had filled out my absentee ballot for president on a Saturday in my dorm room, right before heading out to a football ...read more
A few weeks ago, Real Time host Bill Maher invited Steve Bannon onto his show, after he was disinvited from the New Yorker Festival. The interview was criticized by the left, just as Bannon's recent appearance in The Economist's festival and his documentary with Errol Morris, ...read more
Since he became the Republican nominee for governor of Florida last month, Ron DeSantis has made no secret of his racism, from his "monkey it up" crack regarding his opponent, African-American Andrew Gillum, on Fox News, to suggesting that immigrants are child molesters. In ...read more
On Saturday September 1st, I watched some of John McCain's funeral coverage. To be honest, I watched just to hear what former President Barack Obama was going to say. Not sure of the schedule, I stumbled into watching Meghan McCain’s passionate eulogy of her father. While ...read more
Most days, former President Barack Obama must go to bed fairly pissed off at how much damage Republicans are doing to America with the explicit goal of erasing his presidency. Other nights, he must go to bed laughing that it's not really working the way they'd hoped it would:A ...read more
Yesterday, California State Senator Scott Wiener achieved a major victory when his net neutrality protection bill, SB-822, was passed through the legislation's Communications and Conveyance Committee by a 9-3 vote. Having passed the Senate in May, the bill will now advance to the ...read more
In a Reutersreport issued yesterday, Pentagon and US military officials revealed their fears regarding Donald Trump's policies for admitting refugees into the country, particularly Iraqis who have provided aid to our troops there. Under President Obama, the state department ...read more
Since the election of Donald Trump, liberals have begun to take once-conservative voices like William Kristol and David Frum seriously, as they have become some of the strongest opponents to the President’s agenda. Simultaneously, they have also heeded the words of the highest ...read more
I know, that headline probably made you gag. But even a broken clock is right twice a day. And in Trump's case, not even that much. Trump screams about the press being the "enemy of the people" fairly regularly now because like all authoritarian thugs, he cannot stand a free ...read more
Last year, I wrote about the Kennedy Center's decision to honor artists like Gloria Estefan and LL Cool J in its annual ceremony as embracing a big tent mentality towards the arts, rather than spurning classical forms like opera and ballet in a ploy for ratings, since many of the ...read more
Chris Cillizza has one job and one job only: Blame both sides for the rapidly declining state of American politics. No matter what the GOP does or how horrible they are, Chris Cillizza finds a way to wring his hands over how both the left and the right brought us to this point. ...read more
I graduated from Northwestern University in 2012, and while I don't regret my experience there, I find myself frustrated by how not diverse it was. When I walked on to campus as a freshman in the fall of 2008, it was one of the least diverse groups to ever enter the university: ...read more
Today, the Supreme Court voted to uphold Donald Trump's Muslim ban by a vote of 5-4,. Although Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg argued that the ban was motivated not by law but by racism, the conservative wing of the court won. Earlier this week they won another 5-4 ruling over ...read more
Roseanne Barr has always been a lightning rod for controversy, but since the return of her landmark sitcom on ABC this spring, she has gone completely off the deep end. While the reboot drew big ratings upon its premiere, many of those who praised the show in the 90s were ...read more
Last week, the US House Intelligence Committee released approximately 3,517 Facebook ads purchased by the Russians between 2015-17, meant to influence the 2016 election, all of which are available to download. USA Today conducted a study of the ads and concluded that more than ...read more
Since the election of Donald Trump, Maxine Waters has become one of the most visible icons of the Resistance. Whether she's "shoving" TYT correspondent Michael Tracey, appearing on t-shirts with her catchphrase "reclaiming my time," or openly calling for impeachment following ...read more