Month: September 2017

I feel like my blogging has gotten painfully repetitive, and I apologize for that. My compulsion to keep hitting many of the same themes like a dead horse is driven by the persistence and strength of narratives that I feel are...

It’s admittedly hard to read a man like Donald Trump. He isn’t consistent. His word is not good. His comprehension of some of the basics of our system of government is shockingly low. His understanding of history,...

Some minimal EDM from Chris and Cosey to start things off: This track was from the mid-1980s, but would not have seemed out of place among some of the releases by various ambient and EDM artists recording during the start of the...

Jonathan Chait is basically correct, but I don’t think it’s accurate to say that Bernie Sanders has gotten us zero percent closer to a single-payer system for health care. Convincing almost all Democrats who have...

In the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, Republicans are now confronting healthcare. It’s going something like this: SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER of TENNESSEE: Um…Patty? I didn’t want to...