Politics Archive
Archives for October 2015


“If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we’ve got a different definition of leadership.”


Even Orange is the New Black got it wrong.
The internet in Cuba is so bad that Cubans had to invent their own.


The ban on these cuddly animals is outdated — if it ever made sense.


Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and three other candidates will face off onstage.


The superdonors in the 2016 race look Republican because the Republican presidential race is much more competitive.


You wouldn’t narc on a neighbor who smoked a joint. So why inform on innocent immigrants?


Oregon enacted a similar law earlier this year.


“Granted, I was not there” is an all-time great to-be-sure graf.


The Trumpiest tweets combine braggadocio and insults, with a bizarre twist of some kind.


I like option two best, personally.


Paul Ryan somehow doesn’t want the world’s most miserable job; why you’d never heard of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners; and the Pentagon gives up on training Syrian rebels.


America’s gun problem goes much, much further than school and mass shootings.


Fifteen presidential candidates and a postponed speaker election. What does this tell us about parties, institutions, and the current moment in politics?


Okay, maybe not 100%.