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President Donald Trump is directly and intentionally attacking the functioning of our collective brain in order to achieve his own quixotic ends.
What President Donald Trump and Elon Musk share more than anything else—and have built their lives on—is one keen insight into American psychology.
The Trump administration's seemingly bottomless appetite for disrupting, contorting, or outright demolishing everything in sight begs a question: what...
This may be a week historians take note of: the moment when a U.S. president officially surrendered to our nation's enemies with nary a shot fired.
For the past three weeks, representatives of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have been playing the role of the consultants in the...
For the past two decades, you longed to cut off the hand that America extends to the most impoverished, oppressed, desperate, and ill of the world....
In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump suggested something much bigger, bolder, and better than he probably realized.
By the 1980s there was a lot more global competition for U.S.-made goods, which began to depress U.S. wages
If gangs were visiting this kind of damage upon our kids, we would call in the National Guard. When frats do it, we go to the movies.
Next week, we'll get a rare cultural confluence: the first night of Hanukkah and Christmas Day coincide for only the fifth time in a century. The...
As I lay moaning in the emergency room, it dawned on me how badly our country had screwed up. I'd been admitted for intractable nausea. By a weird...
The results were decisive. The president-elect won a second term by more than 2.5 million raw votes, and convincingly in the electoral college....
Ancient Greek mariners sailing through the Strait of Messina had a dilemma. Stick to the Calabrian side and risk tearing up their ship on a rocky...
There's no sugarcoating this. The election was terrible for America. We must now endure President-Elect Donald Trump's renewed assault on the...
If you're still a undecided in the presidential election, you're not alone: up to 13 percent of voters may be in the same boat, according to Change...
There are two ideas firing Democrats' desperate dreams right now. Both come from ancient Greece. The first is democracy, which derives from the...
In Isaac Asimov's classic short story Spell My Name with an "S," twodemons compete to see how much they can change the course of history with the...
For Democrats, the 2024 campaign is beginning to feel like that moment in Star Wars when the good guys get trapped by the Death Star's tractor...
Is the Presidential election already over? Well...not exactly. Not yet. But there's now a real argument that sometime last week, former President...
There's an old story about a woman who sees floodwaters rapidly rising outside her front door. A man comes by in a rowboat and offers a ride to...
The fact that Vice President Kamala Harris "won" last night's presidential debate over an enraged, incoherent, deceitful former President Donald...
In politics, we sometimes miss the trees for the forest. Election analysis is usually about the three "Ms": money, media, and maps: what campaigns...
To borrow an Obama-ism, let me be clear. They planned this. Barack and Michelle Obama's electrically brilliant speeches to the Democratic National...
"What does Walz get her?" Last night, that was a rhetorical question that Democratic insiders were asking when sizing up the final choice between...
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio just suggested that if President Joe Biden withdraws as the Democrats' nominee he should also resign as president. This...