Category Archives: Commentary

The US Has Entered Stage 3 in the Trade War With Canada

The philosopher Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher, once said that you don’t step into the [...]

He Billed Grandma for a Catheter She Never Got. Then He Left.

The name on the indictment is Erekle Gugava. Thirty-three. Citizen of Georgia — the country, [...]

They Gave the System a 32. The System Should Not Get Another Decade.

A new national poll just put a number on what parents have been muttering in [...]

They Can Empty ICE at 2 A.M. They Can’t Ask for a Birth Certificate at Noon.

The question sounds like a riddle. On March 27, in the middle of the night, [...]

Government Employees Fight Trump’s Reforms From Within the Executive Branch

Who ultimately decides how the executive branch works? Is it the president, elected by the [...]

When Will the Iranian People Overthrow the Regime?

We are six months out now from the beginning of the Iran war, if that’s what [...]

They Booked a Hyatt to Abolish the Country

While normal people grilled something over Labor Day, about three thousand of them packed the [...]

They Don’t Need a Newspaper When They Have Two Hundred Phones

City Hall built a press list that does not call itself a press list. It [...]

The Barrel Got Cheaper. The Gallon Didn’t Get the Memo.

The rumor going around is tidy. Crude is forty dollars a barrel cheaper than it [...]

No, Capitalism Does Not “Work”

One of the most commonly heard complaints today—especially among young people—is that “capitalism doesn’t work [...]