Gearing up for 2024, President Biden must confront the legitimate criticism of his advanced age by embracing it and flexing as a seasoned and reliable political leader willing to go Dark Brandon against MAGA fascism. On Tuesday, President Biden and Vice President Harris surprised absolutely no one when the pair…

For the first time in his miserable, privileged life, Tucker Carlson — the greatest modern ally of white nationalists, bigots, bowties, and conspiracy theorists — can’t whine against immigrants, Black people, feminists, or Muslims for his grievances. Instead, he can only blame his former employer, Fox, which unceremoniously fired him…

Forget the Presidency, Ron DeSantis is gunning for an Oscar nomination. Last week, the presidential upstart Ron DeSantis put on a spectacular performance, full of melodrama and bluster, pretending to be outraged about Donald Trump’s historic indictment. Like his Republican peers, he went all-in with anti-semitism and blamed the “Soros-backed”…

A twice-impeached vulgarian, who was groomed by wealth, elevated by celebrity, protected by the Presidency, and defended by an extremist cult, and who lost the popular vote twice and incited a violent insurrection against our free and fair elections, has finally experienced the bitter taste of accountability for the first…

The occupation. That’s one word that’s been missing from American media coverage of the hundreds of thousands of Israelis protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s naked attempt to consolidate power by overhauling the judiciary. These strikes and protests are both welcomed and encouraging, especially as fragile democracies are under attack and…

What would happen if the GOP loved children more than guns? First, kids in America would be able to concentrate on reading, learning math, and playing with their friends instead of practicing shooting drills and figuring out how to dodge and outrun bullets. Second, there wouldn’t be weekly headlines of…

Like clockwork, orange Trump is back, which means we can expect more of “the old ultraviolence”. During the Trump regime, writer Adam Serwer coined the phrase, “the cruelty is the point,” to cut through the media’s infantilizing, sugar-coated nonsense of “economic anxiety” as the primary motivator of Trump’s base. Instead…

In order to entertain my young kids, I sometimes wear Batman pajamas, wrap a towel around my neck, and pretend to be a superhero. We do convincing role-play, and I chase them around the house. Sometimes, my kids decide to be the supervillains, and they concoct a nefarious plan and…

For the past week, I’ve been inundated with messages, invectives, and hate mail, all demanding that I apologize for comments I made about Nikki Haley upon learning she’s running to be President as a “new generation” of GOP leaders. Cable news anchors, pundits, reporters, and columnists jumped into the fray…