Year: 2016

impersonation embodied in this gear is intentional, i.e., marketing? [courtesy digby] I’m inclined to think so. Given that policing (or, similarly, military) grants some legal sanction to exercising authority over others,...

Progressive Democrats thought that they’d seen the last of Evan Bayh, but they haven’t. He will run for Senate to win back the seat he vacated in 2010. He reportedly has $10 million still in his coffers, so...

The Republican National Convention begins a week from today, and rumors are swirling that Donald Trump will make his VP announcement some time this week. The conservative Washington Times raised some eyebrows yesterday with a...

Theresa May set to be PM after Leadsom dramatically quits Tory race | The Guardian | Tim Loughton, Andrea Leadsom’s campaign manager, has released a lengthy statement about Leadsom’s decision. He claims she was the...

How Republicans Tried To Flip the Jewish Vote — and Created Donald Trump | The Forward | By Samuel G. Freedman On the Shabbat morning of June 19, 1943, in a tiny upstairs shtibl in the East Bronx, my Uncle Seymour became a...