Open Thread

Look Who's Funding Speaker Mimi Minor-Brown's Slush Fund: Phil Shawe, the polarizing New York executive whose financial largesse helped propel Gov. Matt Meyer to victory in 2024, is now throwing…

Talarico Takes Texas D Primary: State Rep. James Talarico defeated U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, emerging victorious over the well-known congresswoman in Texas’ most…

The Unholy Holy War: Hey, ya gotta get the troops ready to die: A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of…

"Mideast Conflict Widens Across Multiple Fronts".  That's the lead headline in today's NYTimes: Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia, traded strikes early Monday after the breakdown of a fragile yearlong…

Leave it to Trump to make me deviate from my Sunday Morning format.  But when he's perhaps started WW III without  Congressional approval, I'm left with no choice. Meet The…

US AND ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN! Let's see--three rogue states.  Who ya got?: The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday in a major assault that threatened a broader regional…

It's The Weakness, Stupid. Americans are unhappy with the way things are going in the country, and don’t feel particularly well represented by either major political party. In our new…

How Epstein's 'Male Gaze' Toxicity Created A Glass Ceiling For Women. Academia: In 2018, an elite group of academics and scientists planned to gather for an exclusive retreat at a…

Anybody OK With ICE Building Concentration Camps?  Without the ovens--so far: A once sleepy rural town named Social Circle, Ga. — just over 40 miles east of Atlanta off Interstate…

Frederick Wiseman--America's Irreplaceable Documentarian: Frederick Wiseman, a director whose rigorously objective explorations of social and cultural institutions constitute one of the more revered bodies of work in American documentary filmmaking,…

Trump Proclaims Tariffs Will Not Go Gently Into That Good Night.  You expected anything different from Der Furor?: Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked…