Happy 4th of July. Allow me to begin the day with a poem by a German who sought refuge from Hitler in our country, the great Bertold...

Most congressional historians consider Kevin McCarthy the weakest speaker since Howell Cobb (D-GA). Cobb was elected speaker (after 63...

Is It The End For Putin Anyway? Yesterday we woke up to reports that the Wagner Group was in a full-scale rebellion and that Russia...

-by Harvey Wasserman News from Ukraine now contains a widespread fear that Russia could blow up the six reactors at Zaporizhzhia, causing...

So Far, It's Not Quite As Bad As Trump’s J-6 Insurrection But It May Get Out Of Hand It started with a 30 minute bombshell video— or...

While Kyiv was being bombarded by Russian drones for the third time in two days, early today upper middle class and wealthy neighborhoods...

World War I was catastrophic for Russian society in every conceivable way. The military was badly led and the Germans out-maneuvered them...

Ukrainian Americans Are Fleeing The GOP In Droves Technically, I guess I’m a Ukrainian-American. My grandfather was born in Ukraine when...

Feel like stepping away from Señor Trumpanzee for a moment? You likely never heard of Gleb Karakulov, right? When I was in Moscow I used...

I don’t think most Americans under the retirement age knew anything about Charles Lindbergh before Phil Roth’s alternative history novel,...

Tuesday— Trump screeching and whining that he’s “copying him’— Meatball Ron broke with the Old GOP Establishment which has seen him as...

The NY Times frequently publishes columns by prolific right-wing propagandist Christopher Caldwell. Yesterday they ran an anti-Biden...

Two years before he was convicted of treason— although the authorities called it ”lying” instead— retired General Michael Flynn was paid...

On Monday, Amy Wang reported that the RNC is urging Republican candidates to double down on the extreme anti-Choice measures that hurt...

Last night, mainstream media reported a drone attack on an Iranian weapons factory in Isfahan. An official Iranian source claimed there...

The newest YouGov poll asked some questions about the war in Ukraine. The results below are from registered voters. Asked whether Russia...

-by emorejahongkong In a recent pair of articles, MSNBC’s Zasheen Aleem: First acknowledges the inadequacy of Congressional Progressives'...

For me it began early in the day when Trump’s good-for-nothing, untreated drug addict son used Twitter to refer to Ukrainian President...

This morning started for me with a powerful new Prevail piece by Greg Olear, Know Your Bad Guys, revolving around Putin's criminal...

Putin Doesn't Care About Angola's Vote; He's Got Elon Musk On His Team Reporting for the Washington Post yesterday, Joseph Menn and Cat...