5 Minutes: Why the West Isn’t Working

The world isn’t working — it’s functioning, but similar to an electric car whose run out of…

Democracy Isn’t Dying

It’s always been this bad

“Democracy is Dead!”

10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About Great Britain

Americans believe a lot of myths about the UK (our revolution was a war against Parliament, not the king, for example) but this should help clear up…

Rachel Maddow Hurt the Resistance

Her Trump tax return story helped the president

Truth In Satire

Trump Calls Marine Nude Photo Scandal “My Number One Priority”

“It is my duty as commander in chief to review all the evidence in this case to ensure that justice is served”

Six years of hell, and no end in sight.

How on Earth are any of us supposed to remember what we were doing six years ago? I can…

The still-relevant Opioid Epidemic, and how it was exposed by Bernie Sanders

The Human Cost of War

Six years ago today marks the start of the Syrian revolution/crisis/war (call it whatever you want, I call it “The Fucking War ” or “TFW” for short). Which developed from a revolution to a civil war/proxy war and of course the war against ISIS. This post isn’t going to talk about how and…

James

Lonely in a Crowd

Just today I was sitting on the uptown 2 train when another lonely man entered. Let’s call…

To Be Or Not To Be

A story from last week when I suddenly fell sick and started sucking until a…

Pulling the Brexit Trigger: Who Will Pay the Penalty?

Brexit Trigger: taking the shot

Imagine that pulling the Brexit Trigger was all just a huge game of football. Not just any game, though: the deciding game that could see the Away team…