This morning, writing on Juan Cole’s Informed Consent, Scott Prosterman placed Ken Burn’s latest in a frightening U.S. context: Ken...

After the most backward, reactionary, xenophobic segment of the British population dragged the U.K. into Brexit— the Conservative party...

by Noah Hey you! You got big plans for a hot weekend? You think those far right goofballs on the so-called Supreme Court and all those...

“Democrats,” whined the NRCC’s spokesman Mike Berg this morning, “are forcing people who didn’t go to college to pay off student loans...

I didn’t read Dana Milbank’s new book, The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party, yet, but I plan to....

Crook County, Wyoming wasn’t named for Trump… but it may have well have been. Tucked into the primitive northeast corner of the state,...

BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! The Republicans are a conservative party. They just want to keep the status quo. Their reactionary wing wants to...

by Noah Your Saturday Cartoon: Yep! Conservatives are always supporting ways to kill people! Always have and always will. It's who they...

A dozen years ago this month, notorious California Republican closet case, former leader of the Golden State's GOP homophobic movement,...

by Noah You know when you see those underwater pictures of a large shark cruising through the water with a parasitical fish known as a...

In 2011 a budding actor friend of mine played the role of Charlie Fox in a college production of David Mamet's 1988 play Speed-the-Plow....

Ever hear of the Corwin Amendment? I fancy myself a student of history and I never had until a member of Congress mentioned it to me...

by Noah Jim Crow not only lives, it's getting stronger every damn day as the Republicans clap and cheer; the Tinkerbell effect in full...

by Noah The United States $enate will soon hold a vote on a filibuster change, by Martin Luther King Day, that could enable the...

How horrible are conservatives? This isn't about political parties-- just a barbaric and poisonous ideology. Notice the picture above;...

Yesterday sniveling little South Carolina closet queen, Lindsey Graham, hissed on Hannity that "I think Build Back Better is dead...

Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind and Fear: The History of a Political Idea, and political science professor, is an important...

David Brooks Now Considers Himself A Manchin-Sinema Democrat Let's begin with a warning from the very worst of the worst. The Texas...

David Benatar is so pessimistic that he made a strong case for not being born. He believes that life is so bad, so painful, that human...

by Noah Racism and bigotry have always been one of the main drivers of the American Conservative movement. It's all about putting people...