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Speaking second after his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, one of the few world leaders standing up to his bombast and ...

One cannot presume to speak for the strategy that may be behind the decision of the royal family and the prime minister to go ahead with ho...

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency contributor Carlos Greaves shares an uncharacteristically sobering flowchart, decision-tree on telling the ...

As a humiliating way for Tiffany, Erik and Don Junior to find out that their father sends out birthday cards, coinciding with a speech de...

Though Trump only has the power without congress to bestow a nickname on a federal department and insist that those are their pronouns—req...

people are flushing toilets ten times, fifteen times, as opposed to once—john jay : other AI-generated quotes of America’s foundational figu...

Following a virtually silent period with suspiciously few tweets from the White House and zero public events scheduled (though Trump would b...

Revisiting the poem by Martin Niemöller as the framework for understanding the descent of America (and elsewhere) into fascism, Cory ...

we are all piscasso’s fishermen : a reflection on “Night Fishing at Antibes”  a dangerous game of jenga with a key pillar of our economy : D...

Though just another feckless executive order and virtue signalling (plus a distraction) to his base—as President Bartlett said there’s no...

many happy returns: belated happy blogoversaries to Miss Cellania and Art for Housewives   then they took him and brought him to a meeting ...

The FBI and other federal agents launched a pre-dawn raid on the Maryland home of former national security adviser John Bolton, whom nota...

First reported by Norwegian news outlet Dagen Næringsliv—and possibly the rather sad and pathetic intimation was even thought fit to print ...

Though ending without any tangible agreements as far as promoting peace for Ukraine after only a few hours, Russian president Vladimir Put...

On 1 August, Trump controversially directed White House staff to fire Commissioner of Labour Statistics hours after delivering, on schedule...

The culmination of the five year effort which saw the passage of US Joint Resolution 23, begun on the centenary of the 1870 death Confederat...

Though both Republicans and Democrats regularly engage in gerrymandering , depending on the party in power when it comes time for redrawi...

Via Kottke and though sadly the crisps that appear in the spot are not an actual product, we applaud alternative energy giant Vattenfa...

Not only has the world’s biggest polluter under the Trump administration sought to abrogate its responsibilities for damage to the planet ...

Half-way into Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel, narrator Humbert Humbert, recounting his obsession, victimisation and...