Open Thread

I get the sense we have crossed another once-inviolable barrier in the Ballad of Donald Trump. Three horrifying hate crimes in five days, like four 500-year floods in a decade,…

Blog patron saint Sir William of Ockham is best remembered for a simple rule to apply when choosing among possible solutions to an unknown -- the simplest explanation is most…

The same genius behind the Soros Mailbox Bomb seems to be a busy little beaver. Similar devices were also mailed to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama and…

It's well documented that more people respond to stories of one person's misfortune than to stories about mass suffering; that's why those late-night TV ads talk about a single starving…

Esquire's Charles Pierce connects the dots from Jamal Khashoggi's murder by the Saudis to the Constitution's emoluments clause, and does so with the help of a quote from storied Delaware…

Yesterday's news cycle was dominated by Trump inaccurately calling Stormy Daniels "horseface," an insult that simply doesn't fit her. This was seen as an attempt to distract from Trump's murderous…

The Saudis aren't the fastest liars on the planet, that's for sure. It took them a week to come around to "he died under questioning by rogue elements," which ranks…

The Legend of Gritty continues to spread, this time with a piece in the New Yorker titled "How the Left won the war for Gritty." The author notes that Gritty…

What happened to Mike Matthews is going on all over America as election season nears a boil. The same day a Connecticut Republican dropped out of his race over Facebook…

In a long essay on the rise of socialism as a political force, Jonathan Chait grapples with the fears of center-left liberals who think socialism's goals are too scary to…

I'm starting to wonder if the Republicans haven't overplayed their hand on Brett Kavanaugh. For a day or two they gained ground in polls by stoking the fires of white…