Is Buffoonery Harmless – Ask Howard Lutnick There was a time when American political paranoia required imagination. One needed satellites in orbit, secret cabals in candlelit basements under a pizza parlor, shadowy financiers pulling levers from behind velvet...
Football, Freedom, and Other Things Republicans Pretend to Understand America gathered last night to watch men in armor chase an oddly shaped ball while commentators explained, with grave seriousness, that this was the purest expression of freedom on Earth. Meanwhile,...
Did Texas Just Vote for Democracy (Accidentally)? It is considered poor etiquette in modern American politics to acknowledge reality while it is still unfolding. Therefore, when Texas briefly wandered off script and voted for a Democrat, the proper response was not...
Cabinet Fantasies and the ICE Dragnet Good morning! Or rather, good spectacle. The day began as so many now do: Donald Trump before cameras, inside a room recently redecorated to his tastes, congratulating himself for the achievement of having arrived. What was billed...
The Immigrant We Are Asked to Applaud Donald Trump hates immigrants. This is not a controversial statement; it is a brand pillar. It has been chanted, legislated, and televised. It has been used to make signs reading “Mass Deportations Now” and embroider it onto red... 
