Since his inauguration, Donald Trump has challenged America's belief that its history was an upward trajectory, correcting past mistakes and rising towards Abraham Lincoln's "more perfect union." Other countries had experienced grave democratic crises, but we thought we were the ...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
Andrew Sullivan has perfectly put into words the terrifying predicament the clearly mentally unwell president has put much of the country in: The president believes what he wants to believe, creates a reality that fits his delusions, and then insists, with extraordinary energy ...read more