Month: October 2017

In my previous piece, I wrote about Milo Yiannopoulos’s ties to Nazis and, by extension, Steve Bannon and the Mercer family’s ties to Nazis. One of the things I referenced was Yiannopoulos’s night out at a...

I finally slogged my way through the entire BuzzFeed article on Breitbart News’s extensive ties to Naziism and it was one of the most dispiriting things I’ve ever done. I had a dim view of the organization already,...

Hardly an excellent track record of nominations, but … What is ICAN, winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2017? The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. But until now the small...

The House Democratic leadership is getting up in years. Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn are both seventy-seven years old. Steny Hoyer is seventy-eight. And they’ve been in their leadership positions for quite a while now,...

Hopefully, you’ve heard to story of how Charles Sumner was beaten almost to death on the Senate floor in 1856. Sumner had delivered an incendiary anti-slavery speech a couple of days earlier in which he savagely...