We have film. Let it roll. Splice it just so. Start with a mounted menace: Masked and armed ICE agents advancing on horseback across a soccer field on Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park. It’s quite a show – scary as hell. Ah, but no one to chase down and manhandle, just frightened summer campers. Cut to…
For a sect whose world is furnished with wild claims and rabbit-hole plunges, MAGA people aren’t very good at conspiracies. Atop QAnon articles of incorporation/initiation, after all, is the gospel truth and sworn oath that the Democratic Party is a honeycomb of child predators, and QAnon will do something about it. What then, of the…
The river knew what these people were talking about. The morning after the Texas deluge, when the death toll along the Guadalupe was only in double digits, a commentary in The New York Times carried this subhead: “The poisonous effects of cutbacks will eventually reach you.” Add the alarm sounded by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji…
I missed the hearings, so I’m asking: When members of Congress quizzed Stephen Miran as this president’s choice to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, did anyone ask him to identify the planet on which he resides? It could not be Earth. No one from this planet would so nonchalantly have said what he did…