Donald Trump’s White House address to the nation about election integrity landed with all the force of a cotton ball. No one who has followed the last three presidential elections would have predicted an honest accounting from the 47th president, who continues to falsely insist that he won the 2020 contest against Joe Biden. The […]
Donald Trump’s White House address to the nation about election integrity landed with all the force of a cotton ball. No one who has followed the last three presidential elections would have predicted an honest accounting from the 47th president, who continues to falsely insist that he won the 2020 contest against Joe Biden. The octogenarian’s claims of stolen elections have long since been debunked, rejected at the time by everyone from Mike Pence to Trump-appointed jurists to the rest of the world. But like boomers seeing their favorite band, long shed of most of its original members due to…
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On Thursday night, President Donald Trump is scheduled to address the nation and will reportedly repeat his false claim that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was stolen. Reports indicate that he’ll focus on, among other things, the Chinese acquisition of (publicly available) voter files and returns from Georgia, a state that Trump narrowly lost but whose results he sought have overturned, despite the state’s Republican governor and secretary of state insisting that voting was entirely above board. The address makes a recent piece, “Trump’s Election Subversion? Which ones are most concerning, and how you save…
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The president of PEN quit for reasons that are morally confused, hypocritical and, yes, casually anti-Semitic.
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DOGE broke the IRS. Former IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has thoughts on how to fix it.
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In 2001, my book, Twentynine Palms, about death near a California Marine base, exposed class and sexual violence in a military town. Some things are better now, many are not.
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What James Parkinson, of the eponymous disease, might say to the president about his promoting infamously unhealthy coal power.
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From plantation apologists to Silicon Valley’s philosopher-kings, a new book tracks how the case for a natural ruling class keeps coming back.
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