Open Thread

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…

Why Not Colbert For President?: Stephen Colbert addressed the fervor around Monday’s “Late Show” on Tuesday, remarking that he’d said his piece after CBS wouldn’t air his interview with James…

RIP: Jesse Jackson: “I may be poor ...” began the call-and-response Rev. Jesse Jackson led in various forms before rapt audiences for more than half a century. “But I am…