Rational Resistance

Hey, conservatives, does this make you mad? What about this?

You are undoubtedly familiar with the Honor Code H.R. McMaster was required to adhere to when he was a cadet at West Point. Everyone knows ...

We knew it, right? Ever since November 8 (well, actually, ever since Trump got his start in politics by making a frank appeal to racism) we ...

When I started blogging more than ten years ago one of the main things that inspired me to do it was the work that Josh Marshall was doing...

It's already started, the conservative drumbeat about how devoted Scalia was to the Constitution. Nothing could be farther from the tr...

Good news travels fast, so you already know. Scalia is dead , and good riddance. Amidst the celebrations, I thought I'd throw out so...

It may seem that everything there is to say about that low-life, scum-sucking piece of shit Martin Shkreli has been said, but I'm here t...

Candidates of both political parties like to have rock music playing at their rallies for obvious reasons. Rock is the music of millions of ...

UPDATE: Diane Rehm has  apologized . You can judge for yourself if it is adequate. Personally, I feel that she's letting herself off p...

Republicans are funny. In their own antisocial way, that is. When you get them talking about politics, and about the differences between t...

This month we're seeing observances of the fortieth anniversary of the end of the American war in Vietnam. Or, to be more accurate, of t...

Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism by Karen M P...

T here's a new report today that St. Elizabeth's Hospital, where John Hinckley, Jr., has lived for more than twenty years, is seekin...

Just when you thought they couldn't sink any lower, the members of the Republican  majority go and prove you wrong. Last week it was B...