Nathaniel Banks won a congressional seat from Massachusetts as a Democrat in 1852. By 1854 he was reelected as a Know Nothing and was...

A plurality of American voters tell pollsters they think Trump is a racist and only 20% deny that he associates with racists. A huge...

Yesterday, erstwhile evangelical leader Frank Schaeffer tweeted “To use human beings as pawns is despicable. Any evangelical that goes...

For many years after college I had no capacity to repay my student debt. I was scraping by, smuggling Indian saris to Ceylon (now Sri...

This morning, Rev Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft (@MiddleChurch) wrote that "As we're all asking anew 'what can I/we do' in this moment-- I am...

If you were in the mood for a nice hike, you could walk from the northern tip of Adam Schiff's district up into Kevin McCarthy's. Schiff...

And Will He Drag The GOP Down With Him? Cawthorn's biography is built on one outrageous lie piled on top of another but a western North...

Adam Schiff might be a little conservative for CA-28, the district he and I live in. When first elected he joined the Blue Dog caucus,...

Wisconsin's delegation to the House includes 5 Republicans, Bryan Steil, Scott Fitzgerald, Glenn Grothman, Tom Tiffany and Mike...

Democrats' favorite Republican, Adam Kinzinger, was on The View today. (Tangent, why is he the favorite instead of the more forceful Liz...

This morning we took a brief look at the RNC meeting in Salt Lake City... but, I admit, it was a kind of opening act for the hilarious...

Maybe with a few hardcore congressional Nazis like Cawthorn, Gosar and Traitor Greene as exceptions, members of Congress from both...

Last week, Umair Haque wrote a piece called Why Americans Are Trapped In A Sadistic Society, not a direct reference to Missouri's...

The Firehose Of Falsehood How the hell did Hitler ever become the head of Germany's government? Were the Germans that stupid-- or evil? I...

New polling from Pew released this morning shows how America's image abroad has rebounded since the American people rejected Trump....

Few people realize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, aside from being a steroid-addicted extra-marital sex maniac and a far right...

I asked several clinical psychologists I know a simple question, based on IQ. I wanted to understand if someone with average...

Yesterday, CNN reported that Elizabeth Neumann, a top Trump Homeland Security Department official warned that "Republicans are...

As Jonathan Last noted this week at The Bulwark, The GOP lives in fear-- afraid of it's own voters. But for any Republicans who would...

On Thursday, crackpot Trumpist Ron Johnson (R-WI) tweeted that "Democrats can't have it both ways: an unconstitutional impeachment trial...