Does Trump's Crazy Hare Krishna Belong To Putin? When I lived in Amsterdam, I working in a building that had been erected before the U.S....

Sunday Thoughts by Noah Those of us who've lived in New York City long enough have always seen the signs of where this is going; those of...

Trump’s Strategy of Division and Control Won't Work Beyond The MAGA Base I’m not talking about MAGAts here, just normal people. Americans...

“To be insulted by these fascists is so degrading.” -"It’s No Game, Part one," David Bowie -by Nigel Best The monster that is racism and...

Bill Lueders noted that intellectually and morally diminished right-wing sycophant Ben Shapiro addressed, in 2016, the criticism that...

His supporters will never understand it, but Trump is the worst president in American history— worse than Nixon, worse than Buchanan,...

by Noah Well, here we are. It's the eve of the Iowa caucuses and word has it that Iowa Republicans are all brain-rotted, soul-rotted...

In 2020, writing for the New York Review, Ruth Ben-Ghiat warned how Trump coopted and corrupted Republican politicians and eventually the...

...that Trump has so far gotten away with In college I was close with the Blue Oyster Cult, going all the way back to when they were the...

Nixon was bad enough. So were the Bushes, Reagan and Gingrich by Noah I've been stating the obvious similarity between Republicans and...

by Noah Sunday Thoughts: In my personal family lore, my mother always enjoyed telling the story of her and my then very young brother...

-by Exile Johnny On most days, either my wife or I, or both of us, take our dog for a walk around 3 PM. I also try to visit my mom once...

by Noah ...and, in many places, early voting has already started. If you see something, say something? Hmmm, I wonder what this traitor's...

by Noah Sunday Thoughts: Or should I say should be? In a better country, a country that actually lived up to the professed ideals of this...

As an intro to an hour-long chat with Jamie Raskin, Vanity Fair wanted to be sure its readers knew Raskin sees Trump as a one man crime...

This morning we took a brief look at the RNC meeting in Salt Lake City... but, I admit, it was a kind of opening act for the hilarious...

Central New York's 24th congressional district, centered around Syracuse, is a swing district-- but not swingy enough to embrace Trump's...

Professor Bill Schneider wrote Standoff: How American Became Ungovernable which he attributes more to the Constitution and the division...

Ever walk around the Kremlin? A few years ago I was staying in a hotel right across the river from the Kremlin and I walked through it...

Formerly prominent Republicanos ex-Congressman Charlie Dent, ex-cabinet secretary Mary Peters, ex-Congressman Denver Riggleman, ex-RNC...