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Shutdown theater

January 27, 2019

We have security theater, congressional hearings theater, protest theater, theater theater, and now shutdown theater.

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Climate change politics: if you’re not with us, you’re against us

June 3, 2017

They do not appear interested in why the earth warms and cools over eons, let alone the endogenous and exogenous influences on that cycle. Their behavior, as it becomes more extreme and predatory, is not even politics. Advocates’ attitudes toward science, and toward politics, indicate they started out as do-gooders who evolved into bullies. They merely want to have their way.

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Why did Hillary Clinton lose the election?

June 1, 2017

We will have to see what Mueller’s investigation actually produces. Meanwhile, I’m happy to say, theories about shady people who conspire to do bad things are back in vogue right now.

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Jonathan Pie: view from Britain

November 14, 2016

For everyone who wants to think through what’s happening around us, thank you, Mr. Pie.

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An even dozen to follow November 8, 2016

November 9, 2016

Hillary Clinton should never, ever have tied her political career to President Obama’s, essentially saying she would give the nation Obama’s third term. Al Gore made a mistake when he did not ask President Clinton to campaign for him. Hillary Clinton made the opposite error.

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P. T. Barnum with an orange mop top

October 27, 2016

Trump may be a master charlatan, but charlatans are small fish. His ego makes him think he’s a big fish, but that doesn’t make him one. We need leaders, not egomaniacs. Just ignore him.

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Donald’s big hands

October 18, 2016

Watch Stephen Colbert draw a big chalk cartoon of the Donald’s penis on the Late Show.

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Five short takes on the campaign

October 13, 2016

How to mistreat women and get away with it Politics becomes entertaining again. First, the Donald wants us to think …

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Gangster roast

October 12, 2016

The speakers at the Cheney roast made fun of Cheney’s affinity for waterboarding. That’s right. They chuckled and guffawed their way through multiple gibes about a form of torture that simulates drowning.

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A narcissist strongman won’t be a good military leader

October 4, 2016

Like other narcissists, Trump does not hide what is inside him. He is supremely confident in himself. His followers like that quality.

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Life is not fair, but you can still try to act justly

September 18, 2016

Roger Goodell should have stood by Bob Kraft, an owner who stood by his quarterback. But Goodell is a weak man. He shows it in almost everything he does.

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Bait your opponent, then destroy him

July 31, 2016

Clinton’s willingness to pull the Khans into the maelstrom of arguments about patriotism and sacrifice that inevitably follow a disastrous war makes you wonder what she won’t do.

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