Latest

The date was April 28, 2009. I didn't realize it at the time but this would be the date my life truly began. I wasn't there for the birth of my oldest son, who is technically my stepson though I’ve never seen a difference between

This is an election year, so you know what that means: It’s time to demonize the hell out of immigrants and freak out about migrants at the Southern border. Republicans' newest stab is the proposed “bipartisan” Senate bill put forward by Senators Lankford, Sinema, and Murphy, tying military

Sometimes sussing out political bad faith requires an oversized corkboard and a ball of yarn and three dozen brightly colored tacks. You run the risk of looking quite unhinged in proving someone is saying something they do not mean to score political points, even when the dots connect. Other times

It was an icy, ultra-realist lyric that rang out of my little car’s speakers in college. The words made me feel mature and wise and, frankly, smug as shit.  “There is no you,” Trent Reznor growls in the Nine Inch Nails song, Only, “there is only me.”  Maybe Reznor

Donald Trump’s Twitter account was very much like a fire-breathing dragon marauding around your front yard.  You knew the dragon was there, and you knew it was capable of shooting columns of flames out of its yawning mouth at any moment. You tried not to open the curtains and