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In the run-up to the 2018 midterms, a major element of Democratic Party messaging was that the party would serve as a check on President Trump and the Republican Party. Incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi “will place the emphasis on investigations by Democratic-led committees in the House to keep the Trump administration in…
xA specter is haunting the straight white liberal sixtysomething American dad—the specter of his damn socialist kids. A generation that grew up eating Cold War propaganda with their cornflakes confronts one in which socialism regularly outpolls capitalism, and it’s happening across the breakfast table. New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik’s new book, A Thousand Small Sanities:…
The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net published a pseudonymous woman’s account of a difficult encounter with Aziz Ansari that made her cry, the internet exploded with “takes” arguing that the #MeToo movement had finally gone too far. “Grace,” the 23-year-old woman, was…
Today’s Mudline December 18, 2016 Joe Biden on 2016 presidential campaign: “So much for the shining city on the hill.”….Harry Reid on the U.S.: “Entering a new Gilded Age.”….Bernie Sanders on Donald Trump: “A pathological liar.”….Tina Fey on Trump: “Can’t muster the dignity of a seventh-grader.”….S.V. Date on Trump: “‘The Apprentice, Secretary of State Edition’…
Phyllis Schlafly founded her conservative Eagle Forum the year I graduated from high school, in 1975. So I can’t summon a renewed sense of outrage after her death this week, at age 92. As much as I loathed Schlafly’s politics, I have to acknowledge her impact at a crucial time in my development. I aspired…