The best way to make history, Winston Churchill wrote, is to write it. And the best way to revise history is to get a bunch of people to lie their heads off. That’s what’s happening right now with regard to Richard Nixon’s reputation, which has lain rightfully in tatters for half a century, due to […]
The public is exhausted, and rightfully so. We are witnessing a systemic failure of our federal government, driven by a legislature that has entirely abandoned its primary duty. Instead of focusing on the tangible, urgent needs of the citizens they serve, lawmakers have allowed Capitol Hill to mutate. We are no longer governed by a […]
Sunrise Movement Twin Cities said it disrupted a Minnesota Republican Party fundraiser, displaying a "RepubliKKKan Party" banner during Lisa Demuth's remarks.
1990—More from Florida justices Rosemary Barkett and Gerald Kogan. In Stall v. State, the Florida supreme court adheres to its precedents holding that Florida’s statute criminalizing obscenity...
A quiet algorithmic coup recently reshaped American medicine. The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association released their updated dyslipidemia guidelines. By retiring older risk calculators in favor of the new Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease EVENTS, or PREVENTS, equations, these centralized medical bodies expanded the age range for primary cardiovascular prevention up […]
A student raises her hand and asks a question into the microphone. The woman on the screen in front of them pauses, blinks, and answers. The classroom falls quiet as Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski describes what she lived through in her own words. For a moment, it feels as if she is sitting with the […]
In Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick promise to pull back the curtain on what they believe is among the most important dynamics underlying today’s politics: the pro-Israel lobby’s alleged control over American foreign policy. However, they ultimately come up short. Rather than embrace the topic’s […]
Some years ago in New Orleans, I learned a word in an antiquarian bookshop, one of those places organized according to the idiosyncratic style that was no doubt an outward physical manifestation of the proprietor’s own mind and memory. On a small shelf just inside the door was the label “Crime, Murder, & Rascality.” The […]
I like my heroines with a spiky side. Think Sarah Palin in camouflage and a ball cap, hunting caribou in Alaska, or Annie Oakley’s petticoat gently brushing against twigs and bushes in her native Ohio as she walked through the woods, shooting squirrels through the head. I like my heroines with a heaping portion of […]
I served 22 years as a U.S. Marine and fought in three wars. The oath I took was not to a party. It was to the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That oath does not expire when the uniform comes off. Anyone who claims to support veterans and to honor the […]
