Category: Weekend Reader
Al Franken is one of the smartest, funniest people ever to enter American politics -- and his sharp new memoir will make you think and laugh on every page. In this excerpt he goes straight ...
Melissa McCarthy’s dim, pugnacious, emotionally unstable screen persona engages the Spicer mode perfectly from the moment “he” steps to the podium to inform the stunned White House press corps that the briefing would begin with ...
As he was about to take the oath of office, Trump's team announced plans for $10.5 trillion in cuts based on a plan devised by the Heritage Foundation -- a plan that includes huge cuts ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to stick to its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of "one China," questioning nearly four decades of policy in a move likely ...
The clash of deeply felt racial and class grievances, compounded by cultural wounds on both sides of the identity divide, is crowding out the progressive brand of populism that America once had and so sorely ...
Even if Republican officials don’t fully grasp the foulness of Trump’s end game, they must have begun to realize that he poses an existential threat to them.
For conservative funders seeking to take down the most formidable Democratic presidential contender, Schweizer offered not just audacity and experience but his own nonprofit. As president of the Government Accountability Institute in Tallahassee, Florida, he ...
The 2016 campaign may look like the craziest campaign in modern political history. But we’ve been here before. Forty-eight years ago, another racist demagogue who “told it like it is”; played on white racial anxieties ...
Hillary Clinton has an advantage here. She gets to shake Donald Trump’s hand. If there’s one hand he desperately doesn’t want to shake, it’s Hillary Clinton’s.
With Hillary Clinton as the historic nominee of the Democratic Party, what Republicans once lauded as a font of good works is denounced as a sewer of venality. While scarcely a word is true, that ...
A young Yazidi woman was living a normal, sheltered life in northern Iraq during the summer of 2014 when her village was attacked by ISIS.
Liking Ike tells the story of how Eisenhower’s celebrity politics was developed on Madison Avenue, practiced in the White House, debated in the press, protested by his opponents, and then remade by subsequent generations of ...
In this special Memorial Day excerpt from Witness To the Revolution, her new oral history of the upheavals at the end of the Sixties, author Clara Bingham brings us voices of the pathbreaking protesters who ...
I finally managed to watch the first republican debate last Thursday after Frisbee golf, and wow, was I impressed.
David Greenberg examines the complex relationship between our politics-driven media and our media-driven politics in his new book.
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