Source: Carlos Barria / Reuters . I learned more about the so-called "migrant crisis" from an article in "The Atlantic...

Source: The New Yorker . In a book review in "The New Yorker" of Hanno Sauer's new book "The Invention of Good and...

Two social media posts in two days. One President with some Girl Scouts, pitching a documentary about our oceans. One pitching guitars for ...

Democrats seem to have the advantage on the issues. But Republicans have the advantage on messaging. Let's consider Missouri. Voters ...

It's now one week since Election Day. Mark Leibovich in "The Atlantic" goes all the way back to Hillary Clinton's clos...

Jim Jordan: "This election was the greatest political comeback we've ever seen." Well, maybe not. Nixon's win in 1968 wa...

"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe. Because his handle was made of wood, he convinced them he was one of t...

My instant election analysis:

November 5 was disappointing, but not a surprise. It's certainly not like 2016, where the result did catch me by surprise. This time,...

The current issue of The New Yorker has a story by Dexter Filkins on the growing risk of war between Hezbollah and Israel in Lebanon ( ...

Homeless man in downtown Phoenix They say, when you're explaining, you're losing. Here I'm going to be explaining what I lea...

Donald Trump might be the Xenophobe-in-Chief, but both political parties are moving to the right on immigration. This will have a negativ...

Source: Nationhood Lab . The last few days have seen a confluence of gun tragedy. A shooting death in the church of Joel Osteen (...

Today's bestest good news: Today I Learned that so-called peak carbon emissions may be at hand, thanks to the growth of solar and w...

Jim Schutze, retired Dallas journalist, still shakes his fist at the sky in Facebook posts. Yesterday's rant caught my attention. ...

I'm feeling optimistic today. I know, my style here usually leans towards the negative, so regular readers who did a spit-take with t...

The photo above shows "woke bureaucrats" parachuting into public schools in Kentucky to "hijack our children's future...

Source: Nationhood Lab . Today I learned something about gun violence. I didn't expect there to be such a marked difference in the...

Source: Ben Hickey. What can America learn from the French about identity politics? Google defines identity politics as "a tende...

Source: Wikipedia . General George Washington ordered the burning of New York City in 1776 after his retreat from the city before...