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Something was in Debs, seemingly, that did not come out unless you saw him. I'm told that even those speeches of his which se...

There’s something about New York, New York City, that is, that is at the root of the Trump phenomenon. […] New York Ci...

– 1 – “I don’t even want to send my kid to school anymore. I’m not joking.” – tweet , @DrPsyBuffy “It's be...

Yesterday, at the behest of its religious extremists, the USA moved its embassy to Israel to Jerusalem. The Palestinian...

(This is edited out of some comments on the US Civil War I wrote in Ta-nehisi's Coates blog back in 2012. All comments in that discussio...

A republic can be a democracy internally and a conquering power externally. Rome, from which we get the word "republic," was a con...

(This is a starting point, rather than a finished piece. Still worth thinking about.) Audrey Hepburn nearly died of starvation when she wa...