Hillary Not for President? It’s “None of Your Business”

According to Huma, one of her protégées and Anthony Weiner's wife of record, Hillary just disqualified herself from running as a female presidential candidate....

Mike Konczal Has Not Heard of Karl Marx. Picketty Has. They Used to Be...

Mike Konczal recently reviewed the newest trendy book in economics, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, for the Boston Review.  Konczal succeeded the impossible task...

Donald’s Gut Makes Decisions

Mr. Trump will announce his vice-presidential selection soon, the New York Times informs its readers. Mr Trump's decision will be surprising but not really. ...
The French Lady Macbeth Outdoes the Original

Who Needs Poison When You Can Tweet?

With one 137-character tweet, Valerie Trierweiler, 48, the French First Lady, proved to be an amazing Lady Macbeth: She got rid of her predecessor,...

Todd Gitlin’s Gibberish in the White House

Gibberish Is the White House’s New Normal  - The bad art of the non sequitur. Once upon a time, there were presidents for whom English seemed...

Mahmoud the Matchmaker

In a recent editorial, The New York Times wrote that Iran threatened to shut the Strait of Hormuz if the United States and Europe...

DSK: Cherchez la Femme!

IMF (once) director, and noted Frenchman, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was, how do you say, perp-walked off a plane by the NYPD on May 14 as...

Fools Rush In

Marquel, TPVs New York Times Special Idiots and Neocons Section correspondent was stubbornly refusing to wipe something flabby which belonged to his boss, when he read Events...

The Douchebag of the Year 2012

We chose Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu to be the douchebag of the year, because he does such a credible job. The great actor he was...

Mr. Just-the-Lawyer

Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Competition correspondent was rope jumping when he came across Noncompete Clauses Increasingly Pop Up in Array of Jobs. Once largely limited to the technology...

Urination, Shame, and Videotapes – Not a Miramax Release

If only from civics 101, Americans should know that peeing on corpses is not nice.  I doubt that when the colonists fought the Native...

How the Incumbent Lion (Obama) Fought to Lose the Presidency to the Phantom Contender

I know Aesop’s fable is about a wise lion who, tickled at the idea of a mouse helping him, let the mouse escape his...

De Gustibus

America’s future is becoming Amy Winehouse’s.  SNL’s Seth Meyers would probably say, “Really?”. Really. With one caveat. We are not interested in leaving any mourners...

Todd Gitlin’s Bad Trump, Good Trump​

Bad Trump, Good Trump​ March 1, 2017 by Todd Gitlin This post first appeared on BillMoyers.com. It seems that all Donald Trump must do to win friends...
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