Nineteenth Century French sociologist Émile Durkheim described a kind of societal derangement which has come to be seen as anomie or...

I hope you read Professor Darren Sherkat's brilliant explanation yesterday about how we know Trump voters tend towards the moron end of...

Trump Attacks His Own Candidates As "Gutless" I used to teach at McGill in Montreal, so I wasn't surprised when I read last night that...

Trump is gone, but, alas, far from forgotten. The little he accomplished was disastrous at the time and many of the effects are being...

My favorite author of all time is Fyodor Dostoevsky, who lived in Czarist Russia between 1821 and 1881, during which time he had a day...

As I've been saying for months: I could care less that corporate Dem Terry McAuliffe lost his gubernatorial race. I'm not happy that the...

What's A Wacko Bird? Yesterday, writing for Politico, Meredith McGraw asked if even Trumpworld is starting to realize they've grown too...

Kevin McCarthy, @GOPLeader, has 1.3 million Twitter followers. His second-in-command, Steve Scalise has two Twitter accounts,...

My old friend, Danny Goldberg, has a new book out, Bloody Crossroads 2020-- Art, Entertainment And Resistance To Trump. I jotted down a...

I have no reason to disbelieve Mo Brooks when he describes his role of revving up armed insurrectionists as they were preparing to sack...

Yesterday, the Washington Post published a fascinating report, The Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol hurt the Republican Party by 3 University...

This morning, John Pavlovitz wrote of wanting to go back to sleep when he wok up and realized that "people actually still support that...

Trump's 4th of July weekend isn't going the way it was supposed to go. He was supposed to headline a patriotic event in Mobile tomorrow...

Last night Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman reported that when Trump spoke at the North Carolina GOP convention, he "was both a diminished...

I don't know how many of the 1/6 insurrectionists are criminally insane, but-- like the QAnon Shaman attorney-- I suspect many of them at...

Former GOP rising star, Ohio Congressman Anthony Gonzalez, is-- like Liz Cheney-- now a victim of virulent Republican Party cancel...

Polling in the last few days shows that most Americans (58%) want to take action to shape and change the climate crisis, rather than...

Trump never liked Pence and even tried to rescind his decision to invite him onto the ticket in 2016. But Pence was supposed to be...

Yesterday, basing his NY Times column on Taking America Back for God by sociology professors Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry, Thomas...

You know the phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face" means? It's kind of a warning that points to an action that would damage...