How Ready Are You To Do Anything About It? In March of 1930, Centrist Chancellor Heinrich Brüning’s reliance on emergency decrees from...

I’ve been looking at the voter turnout numbers for the 2024 election . Overall, participation was down from the 2020 presidential...

Polling yesterday from Monmouth includes what Americans say their top concerns are— and a plurality say that neither Trump nor Biden, nor...

In 2022, in the midst of right-wing blind fury over the COVID pandemic, violent, anti-government extremist Ammon Bundy decided to run for...

The Democratic Party Protects Democracy, Right? Really... Right? Tuesday, state Sen Tim Kennedy (D) trounced West Seneca Town Supervisor...

-by Patrick Toomey There is a famous quote from Ben Franklin at the close of the 1787 Constitutional Convention that has never been more...

On Tuesday, Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney reported that some of the rats were looking to jump off the SS Trump to save their own skins....

Trump-- The Kremlin Investment That Keeps Paying Dividends Recently, my sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She had surgery and her...

The Republican Party is still viable because of so-called “small town values.” Yesterday, inspired by Paul Waldman’s look at Doug Burgum...

According to this month’s Forbes, the 10 richest people in the world are all multi-billionaires. But none of them are the richest in...

Gandhi Was Expelled From Parliament Yesterday A couple of days ago, when I was writing about the real-time disintegration of Israeli...

Yes, Trump’s a stupid and dangerous asshole; but so are many— how many?— of his voters. And, yes, Republicans have nothing to offer the...

This morning, a trio of Politico writers, noted that “citizen-led initiatives have been used to legalize marijuana, expand Medicaid,...

Writing for The Atlantic this morning, Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic warned that the reason the top secret files scandal is so...

-by Danny Goldberg “Abortion will be on the ballot in November” insist Biden, Pelosi and Schumer but that isn’t necessarily true, and a...

Raise Your Hand If You Think Democracy Is Working? Clear majorities favor a wide range of progressive issues from gun control and women's...

Although the House Republican conference is filled with nuts who believe all kinds of the crackpot conspiracy theories that circulate...

Washington Post reporters Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett broke the news today that the Department of Justice has a new unit to address...

Just before dawn-- right around the time our post about how Americans have turned against the Supreme Court went up-- the NY Times...

I'm not one to shy away from calling out conservative Democrats from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- the Blue Dogs and New...