In Praise of Argument’s End – April 20, 2024
The Karma of Obituaries – March 26, 2024
If You Ain’t Cheatin’ – March 17, 2024
Profiles in Courage (Not) – March 14, 2024
We Get the Government We Deserve – March 9, 2024
History Will Shake Its Damn Head – March 3, 2024
The Guatemalan Model – February 22, 2024
Resisting the Right: A Handbook – February 16, 2024
Who Needs Voter Suppression? – February 7, 2024
Suffering Is Guaranteed: A Conversation with Harsha Misra – January 31, 2024
When You’re a Star, They Let You Do It – January 13, 2024
Happy New Year Zero – January 1, 2024
Does It Matter If AI Is Sentient? – December 26, 2023
It’s All About the Line – December 11, 2023
Credit Where It’s Due: The Power of the Press – December 6, 2023
Biden Shames the Press – November 20, 2023
War Crime Is a Redundancy (Almost) – November 9, 2023
The Penalty Kick as Ontological Dilemma – October 25, 2023
Beware the Backlash – October 14, 2023
Kafka Would Blush – September 7, 2023
What Is the Best Case Scenario? – August 30, 2023
Smiles of a Summer Night (Sorta) – August 23, 2023
Reason’s End – August 15, 2023
The Fast and the Furious – August 7, 2023
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance – August 1, 2023
My One Way Rivalry with Christopher Nolan – July 26, 2023
The Air Crash Inspector: An Interview with Martin Amis – July 15, 2023
One Bullet Dodged – June 28, 2023
Notes for the National Portrait Gallery – June 21, 2023
Bubbles and Bullshirt – May 15, 2023
One Small Step – March 31, 2023
“That Makes Me Corrupt” – February 14, 2023
O Lucky Man – January 24, 2023
The Rise of Republican Nihilism – January 9, 2023
Ron’s Retro-COVID Denialism – December 19, 2022
The Tragedy of Brazil – December 5, 2022
What Will Republicans Learn from the Midterms? – November 11, 2022
James Carroll’s “Revelations of the War in Ukraine” – October 30, 2022
Is Democracy a Luxury? – October 21, 2022
Of Tehran and Tucson – October 1, 2022
Beware a Rat Being Cornered – September 24, 2022
“Once You Have the Courts…” – September 10, 2022
Persecuted Innocent or Serial Offender? – August 31, 2022
The Perils of Pursuing Justice (and Why We Have to Do It Anyway) – August 20, 2022
Secrets and Lies – August 15, 2022
Show of Hands: Camilla Nielsson’s “President” – August 8, 2022
The Atomic Bomb of Election Subversion, Part 2 – July 20, 2022
The Atomic Bomb of Election Subversion – July 16, 2022
The High Cost of Letting People Off the Hook – July 2, 2002
Smoking Cannon – June 24, 2022
God, Guns, and Gold – June 5, 2022
They Don’t Want It to Stop – May 19, 2022
Zebras Not Horses: The New American Normal – May 13, 2022
The Very Worst Person We Should Have Let Decide Our Abortion Policy – May 4, 2022
Violence and the Heroic Impulse – April 20, 2022
Might Putin Just Declare Victory and Go Home? – March 28, 2022
The Ghost of Impeachments Past – March 12, 2022
A Guide to Recognizing Imperialism – March 7, 2022
This Just In: War Is Hard – March 1, 2022
The People Giving Putin a Pass – February 25, 2022
Of Paranoia and Patriotism – February 2, 2022
Police and Thieves – January 20, 2022
Toward a New Political Journalism – January 12, 2022
The Respite Is Coming to and End, Part 2 – January 1, 2022
What Rough Beast: Joan Didion for Boys – December 24, 2021
The Respite Is Coming to an End – December 18, 2021
The Unkillable Zombie of States’ Rights – December 9, 2021
Get It Be (or, Rashomon on Savile Row) – December 4, 2021
Rittenhousism and the Republican “Self-Defense” of America – November 24, 2021
Critical Race Theory Proven – November 20, 2021
Fifth Column of Fools – November 7, 2021
the entirely preventable collapse of american democracy (undergraduate overview) – October 31, 2021
Has That Boat Sailed? – October 18, 2021
Kagan as Cassandra – October 5, 2021
The Effort to Demonize Joe – September 26, 2021
The Canard of the “Liberal Threat” – September 18, 2021
Autocracy on the March – September 10, 2021
Anniversaries Are for Remembering – September 2, 2021
Now Ain’t the Time For Your Tears – August 18, 2021
The Insurrectionist On My Street – August 16, 2021
Piggy’s American Adventure – July 31, 2021
Suppression and Subversion – June 30, 2021
Paint a Vulgar Picture – June 23, 2021
The Tyranny of the Minority – June 10, 2021
Fran and Spalding – June 3, 2021
Both Sides Now – May 29, 2021
Spring Awakening (or, Insurrection 2.0) – May 10, 2021
The Passive Path to Democracy’s Death – May 3, 2021
The Boy from Berlin: Mark Harris on Mike Nichols – April 27, 2021
Chauvinism on Trial – April 21, 2021
Banging on a Window That Long Since Closed – April 19, 2021
Portrait of a Party in Moral Bankruptcy – April 15, 2021
The Mayor of Dametown: A Conversation with Dixie Laite – April 5, 2021
Hard Knocks and Soft Power – March 12, 2021
The Global War on Terror, Phase II – March 8, 2021
Why Do Republicans Deserve to Heard At All? – March 1, 2021
Healing from Hate: A Conversation with Peter Hutchison – February 22, 2021
Cowards Bend the Knee (Again) – February 14, 2021
A Twenty-First Century Scopes Trial – February 12, 2021
Who’s Afraid of the Big I (Reboot)? – February 8, 2021
Crime and Punishment – February 4, 2021
Making America Great Again – January 30, 2021
Now We Know – January 28, 2021
Back and Forth with The Back Row Manifesto – January 26, 2021
Let the Sun Shine In – January 22, 2021
Hit the Road, Jack – January 19, 2021
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover – January 14, 2021
How to Tell You’re in a Guerrilla War – January 12, 2021
Will There Be a Reckoning….or a Repeat? – January 9, 2021
It’s Come To This – January 7, 2020
The World’s Most Dangerous Crybabies – January 5, 2020
Buh-Bye, Annus Horribilis – December 31, 2020
The Self-Pardon Is Coming – December 27, 2020
The Future of a Delusion – December 21, 2020
Georgia On My Mind – December 14, 2020
The Ghost of Grover Cleveland – December 8, 2020
There Can Be No Return to Normalcy – December 3, 2020
What I’m Thankful For – November 26, 2020
Imagine If Republicans Had a Better Hand – November 23, 2020
The Biggest Loser(s) – November 18, 2020
Knives to a Gunfight (Redux) – November 13, 2020
The GOP’s Performative Fanaticism (That’s All It Is, Right?) Is Still Insanely Dangerous – November 12, 2020
How We (Narrowly) Avoided a Coup – November 9, 2020
America Is a Lot Sicker Than We Wanted to Believe – November 6, 2020
Unto the Breach – November 2, 2020
Scariest Halloween Ever – October 28, 2020
The Return of Mr. X (Part 2) – October 22, 2020
The Return of Mr. X (Part 1) – October 19, 2020
The Impending Arrest of Joe Biden – October 12, 2020
Sick Puppy – October 5, 2020
The Paradox of Preparing for an Election That May or May Not Be Rigged – September 27, 2020
The Republican Party Believes It Alone Has the Right to Govern – September 21, 2020
Don’t Count on the Military to Save Our Democracy (That’s Not Its Job) – September 15, 2020
Summer’s End – September 10, 2020
Pix or It Didn’t Happen: Facebook vs. the Truth – September 3, 2020
Rosenstein and Guildenstern – August 31, 2020
A Parade of Lies, and One Chilling Truth – August 28, 2020
For What It’s Worth – August 24, 2020
Awakening and Sacrifice: A Conversation with Pete Nicks – August 13, 2020
Please Mr. Postman – August 10, 2020
Ramona Diaz on the Persecution of Maria Ressa – August 7, 2020
The Theft of the Presidency: Phase II – August 1, 2020
Trump/Fonda – July 27, 2020
“Hammer and Dance”: Prof. Kent Kirshenbaum on the Pandemic (Part 2) – July 24, 2020
“Hammer and Dance”: Prof. Kent Kirshenbaum on the Pandemic (Part 1) – July 21, 2020
The Invention of Whiteness (Revisited) – July 13, 2020
America Against Itself: A Time for Burning (Again) – July 7, 2020
Coward, Traitor, or Both? – July 3, 2020
Youth in Revolt: a Conversation with Faith & Odette Duggan – June 30, 2020
The Fourth Horseman: Coup D’état by Chaos – June 26, 2020
Mask (and Non-Mask) as Totem – June 23, 2020
Behind the Blue Wall (Redux) – June 17, 2020
Lawn Order: Special Victims Unit – June 14, 2020
The Man Who Saved America – June 11, 2020
“What They Do Next Is Steal an Election” – June 5, 2020
Gil Scott-Heron Could Not Have Been More Wrong – June 3, 2020
Amy & George – May 30, 2020
What Might Have Been – May 27, 2020
Memento Mori – May 22, 2020
The Strange Fruit Endures – May 16, 2020
Live and Let Die – May 8, 2020
The Price of Cynicism – May 4, 2020
Vectors of Pestilence – April 27, 2020
The Super Bowl of Gaslighting – April 20, 2020
A Special Circle of Hell Awaits – April 12, 2020
Solitary Confinement Tips from Simon Mann – April 6, 2020
The Sound of Sirens – March 30, 2020
The Lethal Cost of Leaderlessness – March 23, 2020
Pandemic and the Case for Community – March 16, 2020
Trump’s Katrina, and Class War – March 11, 2020
Smash the Patriarchy, 2020 Edition – March 7, 2020
Inside the Democratic Race (Part 2) – March 3, 2020
Inside the Democratic Race (Part 1) – March 1, 2020
Their Man in Washington – February 24, 2020
Wake Up Little Susie – February 20, 2020
Travesty Complete: Cowards Bend the Knee – February 8, 2020
Travesty in Progress: Part 3 – February 2, 2020
Travesty in Progress: Part 2 – January 31, 2020
Travesty in Progress: Part 1 – January 28, 2020
Smog Machine – January 21, 2020
Acts of War in the Age of Endless War – January 9, 2020
They Did the Right Thing – December 19, 2019
Obstructed View – December 10, 2019
Will We Go Into the Darkness? – November 25, 2019
Dreyfus’s Ghost – November 20, 2019
Play the Marseillaise – November 17, 2019
Of Nightmares and Strategy (Part 2) – November 11, 2019
Of Nightmares and Strategy – November 5, 2019
Shallow State – October 30, 2019
The Sheriff Is Near: White People, Blazing Saddles, and Barack Obama – October 24, 2019
Atrocity and Euphemism – October 16, 2019
Trump Shoots Man on Fifth Avenue – October 9, 2019
The Downside of Being a Sociopath – October 2, 2019
Ukrainegate: A High Crime in Plain Sight – September 24, 2019
Knives to a Gunfight – September 19, 2019
“The Real Heroes Are Dead” – September 11, 2019
The Fiasco to Come – September 4, 2019
New Coke, Old Tribalism – August 16, 2019
A Century of “The King’s Necktie” – August 8, 2019
Truth Laces Up Its Boots – July 26, 2019
Live From the Surface of the Moon – July 18, 2019
Authoritarianism Adjacent – July 3, 2019
Semantics and Sadism – June 25, 2019
The End of Outrage – June 20, 2019
Inside the Myth Machine – June 5, 2019
Garbo Speaks: Will Congress Listen? – May 30, 2019
How to Tell Elections Matter – May 22, 2019
Who’s Afraid of the Big I? – May 15, 2019
A Plague Among Us – May 7, 2019
Reading Mr. Mueller – May 2, 2019
Nevertheless They Persist – April 29, 2019
Employee of the Month – April 19, 2019
Ghostwriter Wanted (Some Collusion Required) – April 16, 2019
Der Furor – April 10, 2019
Cover Me: Bill Barr’s Moment of Truth – April 4, 2019
Trump as OJ – March 29, 2019
On Losing Friends Over Politics – March 9, 2019
The Right Wing Loop of Malicious Ignorance – March 1, 2019
In Case of Non-Emergency, Break Glass….or What If They Burned Down the Reichstag and Nobody Cared? – February 17, 2019
Oh, How Our Standards Have Fallen – February 11, 2019
Computer Says No (or Why I Am Fine with the Robot Uprising) – January 30, 2019
Sending Don Spelunking – January 26, 2019
The Rise of the Espiocracy – January 20, 2019
A Modest Prediction – January 9, 2019
The Enduring Appeal of Walls (for Troglodytes) – December 28, 2018
Requiem: Is This America? – December 21, 2018
“She Worked for Me” – December 15, 2018
Drinking the Flavor-Aid (And Yes, I Mean Flavor-Aid) – December 4, 2018
Time May Change Me: David Bowie Gets Revisionized – November 26, 2018
Omar Comin’ – November 20, 2018
Potemkin Democracy – November 9, 2018
The Politics of Insanity – November 4, 2018
Come and See the Violence Inherent in the System – October 26, 2018
The Death of Hypocrisy – October 22, 2018
The Ghost of Merrick Garland, Part II – October 10, 2018
On Losing a Rifle – September 17, 2018
Pretty Shitty Monkeys: A Surprisingly Optimistic Conversation with Shalom Auslander – September 10, 2018
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – September 5, 2018
Rudy Giuliani: Post-Modern Philosopher – August 20, 2018
“Blessed Be the Fruit”—Patriarchy, Tyranny, and the Supreme Court – August 13, 2018
“Submission”—The American Translation – August 6, 2018
The Pitch – July 31, 2018
Will Trump Ever Leave Office (Even If He Loses in 2020)? – July 23, 2018
This Just In: Russia Wins Cold War – July 17, 2018
Five Blind Mice – July 11, 2018
Dear Huddled Masses: Go F–k Yourselves – June 21, 2018
Funny Funny: A Conversation with Alan Zweibel – June 18, 2018
Singapore Is the New Munich (Is What Fox Would Have Said If It Were Obama) – June 13, 2018
Memorial – May 27, 2018
Big Hits & Fazed Cookies: A Year of The King’s Necktie – May 23, 2018
On the Bus with Tom Wolfe – May 19, 2018
Kakistocracy and the Iran Deal – May 11, 2018
Kakistocracy and the Iran Deal (short) – May 11, 2018
A Conversation with Joe McGinty (In C) – May 7, 2018
Truth or Consequences – May 3, 2018
What They Will Say When He’s Gone – April 27, 2018
“Slow Burn” Is the Greatest Takedown of the Trump Presidency Yet – April 21, 2018
“The Modern World Starts Here”—The Birth of Silicon Valley – March 30, 2018
Only Nixon Could Go to China…But Nixon Was, Like, Smart – March 16, 2018
Blood On Their Hands: Guns in America (Part 2) – March 8, 2018
Why Can’t I Own an M-1 Tank? – March 3, 2018
Surrender of the Hawks – February 22, 2018
A Spark Is Lit: A Conversation with Alix Kates Shulman (Part 2) – February 15, 2018
Feminism in the Age of Monsters: A Conversation with Alix Kates Shulman (Part 1) – February 8, 2018
Herr Drumpf: A Thought Experiment – January 28, 2018
Behind the Blue Wall: Pete Nicks and “The Force” – January 22, 2018
Truth or Consequences: Bill Jersey on the End of Evangelicalism (Part 2) – January 10, 2018
Jesus Wept: Bill Jersey on the End of Evangelicalism (Part 1) – January 4, 2018
Return on Investment: Kemala Karmen on Public Education – December 14, 2017
Somewhere, PT Barnum Is Laughing – December 8, 2017
The Read Thru – December 1, 2017
The Ghost of Merrick Garland – November 25, 2017
The Last Laugh: Ferne Pearlstein on Humor and the Holocaust – November 18, 2017
Sic Semper Tyrannis: The Lessons (and Limits) of Virginia – November 10, 2017
A Hard Rain Is Gonna Fall (But on Whom?): Two and a Half Scenarios for Trump’s Endgame – November 6, 2017
The Disadvantages of Decency: A Conversation with James Carroll (Part 2) – November 1, 2017
The Invention of Whiteness: A Conversation with James Carroll – October 27, 2017
Notes on the Niger Ambush – October 20, 2017
The Return of Voodoo Economics – October 19, 2017
Things Trump Spporters Have Taught Me – October 14, 2017
Seven Trump Outrages this Week (But Who’s Counting?) – October 5, 2017
Literacy vs. Tyranny: A Conversation with Matt Bardin – October 4, 2017
Who Says the Next Election Will Be OK? (Or How We Lost a War We Didn’t Know We Were In) – September 27, 2017
The Nature of the Person….and the Nature of the Threat – September 20, 2017
An End to Nuclear Fairytales – September 14, 2017
The Voice of the Prophet – September 7, 2017
The Hubris of the Lemmings – August 22, 2017
‘Round Midnight – August 14, 2017
The Helicopter Parent from Hell – August 7, 2017
One Nothing-Burger To Go: The Weird Turn Pro – July 31, 2017
“Strangelove in Reverse”: The Dangers of Mattis and McMaster as the Last Line of Defense – July 26, 2017
John McCain: A Tragedy in Three Acts – July 20, 2017
The Elephant in the Room: Trojan Trump and the Invisible Coup – July 12, 2017
Who’s Really to Blame for Donald Trump (Hint: They Don’t Eat Borscht) and the Path Forward – June 28, 2017
President Carrot Top (or Why Donald Trump Is More Infuriating Than Vladimir Putin) – June 21, 2017
The Inevitability of Russiagate – June 14, 2017
Beware a Better Demagogue (Part 2) – June 7, 2017
Beware a Better Demagogue (Part 1) – May 31, 2017
Bette and Joan and Mary and Offred (and Hillary) – May 23, 2017
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