You Don”€™t Have to Be Crazy to Be Scott Adams, But It Helps

Leon Neyfakh writes for Slate so, big surprise, his article "€œThey Totally Knew: The People Who Foresaw the Rise of Donald Trump"€ doesn"€™t include a single ...

Is Mitt on a Suicide Mission?

“It’s a suicide mission,” said the Republican Party Chairman. Reince Priebus was commenting on a Washington Post story about Mitt Romney and William ...

Surrendering to Death

Eagles of Death Metal recently finished a Canadian tour and I got to sit down with vocalist Jesse Hughes and discuss the Bataclan attack in Paris that killed 89 of his fans. ...

Springtime for Donald Trump

If you strip away the swastikas and goose-stepping, The Producers is, at heart, a story about wresting success from failure. Max Bialystock is a Broadway producer who has lost the ...

John Kerry

Kerry’s Wrong Address

There's been a lot of talk about Trump as the so-called "€œalt-right"€ candidate, but he's actually been running an "€œalt-center"€ campaign, staking out positions that ...

Paul Ryan

Who Promoted Private Ryan?

Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet ...

Bill Kristol

Kristol’s At It Again

"€œMitt in Talks for 3rd Party Bid"€ ran the Boston Herald's headline this Sunday. "€œJesus Christ,"€ I thought to myself, "€œwhat's Bill Kristol up to now?"€ ...

Cowards, Go Reproduce Yourselves

Once the French had cleared out of Moscow in October 1812, special commissions were set up to investigate those who had played nice with the invaders. Only 22 people, all of them ...

Los Angeles Times Building

Race and Unreason in L.A.

By any measure, the Los Angeles Times is a bad newspaper. Sure, it's the fourth-largest paper by circulation in the U.S., but that's akin to calling someone the ...

Fear of Conversation

A few days ago, I met a mordant Palestinian-American who told me why he refuses to recognize the existence of Israel. He said that in 1948 his father, as a boy of 6, was tied to ...

America’s Thinning Cohesion

When you take away a man's identity, is he left with anything worthwhile? I pondered that question when listening to a sympathetic NPR report on a Mexican-American's experience ...

John Wayne

Down on The Duke

Last week California lawmakers shot down a proposal to declare May 26th “John Wayne Day” in honor of the iconic actor’s birthday. At issue were comments that ...

At Last, America First!

Whether the establishment likes it or not, and it evidently does not, there is a revolution going on in America. The old order in this capital city is on the way out, America is ...

Palermo, Sicily

On the Mafia’s Doorstep

The Mediterranean isle of Sicily has long been a lily pad for those who seek to hop between Africa and Europe. Over the millennia its ownership has changed hands between ...

Lining Up to Get Berned

I went to a Bernie Sanders rally dressed as a liberal douche and it went exactly as expected. It was in Washington Square Park next to NYU and there were about 27,000 students, ...

The Conservative Media Meltdown

However the Trump War resolves itself, we"€™ve already seen at least one casualty"€”conservative media cohesion. Sides are being drawn, and blood feuds have been declared. As ...


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