Professor Elizabeth Midlarsky had her office at New York's Columbia Teachers' College vandalized with Nazi swastikas this week. She also found the Jewish slur "Yid" painted on her office door. Midlarsky, who has applied her training as a clinical psychologist to the field of ...read more
Having satirized British politics (The Thick of It/In the Loop) and American politics (the multiple Emmy-award-winning Veep), Armando Iannucci has now brought his hammer - and sickle - down on Mother Russia in The Death of Stalin, a farce that not only lives up to his previous ...read more
In the wake of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party's victory over Theresa May and her Tories in England, some liberals who either sided with, or had sympathy with, the American far left, were quick to re-litigate the Democratic primaries: Corbyn and Labor gained 29 seats in ...read more
British prime minister Theresa May called a snap election after only 11 months as leader of the Conservative Party in a moment of what many will now call madness. May confidently gambled that she could in one fell swoop destroy what was left of the Labour Party, consolidate power ...read more
Today, global politics is in turmoil with several dangerous heads of major states actively trying to increase the likelihood of conflict. As Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Rodrigo Duerte and Kim Jong Un ramp up rhetoric against other countries, their own citizens, and even ...read more
by Daniel James How the UK voting public respond to Theresa May's calculated decision not to appear in the leader's debate will give us an interesting insight into how humans more generally might react to the affront of being made irrelevant by artificial intelligence. Le me ...read more
On his first day as Labour party leader during Prime Minister's Question Time, Jeremy Corbyn did the unthinkable and attempted to have a civilized debate with David Cameron. Not only that, he didn't ask his own questions and instead read out emails from members of the public who ...read more
I was on the Thom Hartmann show last night with Ari Rabin-Havt, the progressive host of 'The Agenda' on SiriusXM to discuss the election of Jeremy Corbyn and the rise of Bernie Sanders. Sans lunatic conservatives ranting on about Obama's communism etc, we had a productive ...read more
In a stunning victory, 100-1 underdog and old school leftie Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour party leadership contest with an astonishing 59% of the vote. It was the biggest electoral mandate of any political party leader in British history, and a clear endorsement of Corbyn's ...read more