Election 2016: No Exit and No Limits
"Hell is other people," said Jean-Paul Sartre. in No Exit, (Huis clos) and so is Democracy as I was reminded today in the New Yorker. A...
Actress Turned Activist Susan Sarandon’s Dangerous Political Game
At the end of Thelma & Louise, the 1991 film for which Susan Sarandon is probably most famous, the two titular characters drive off a...
The Director’s Dysfunction
[caption id="attachment_151300" align="alignleft" width="300"] Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Friend[/caption] The Republican Chairman of the House Committee of Government and Oversight provided the gleeful announcement. FBI...
Election Update: The How-Full-Is-This-Glass Election
[caption id="attachment_151305" align="aligncenter" width="575"] BETHANY HECK / GETTY IMAGES[/caption] Hillary Clinton, like President Obama four years ago, has spent a lot of time with a...
CNN: Not Only Unethical, But Pretty Stupid, Too
CNN's Jeff Zucker thinks Donna Brazile's actions are "disgusting" and "unethical". Well, huh. It seems he thinks so because some pundits have decide that Brazile...
Do Vegetarians Live Longer Than Meat Eaters?
Our ability to live a long life is influenced by a combination of our genes and our environment. In studies that involve identical twins, scientists...
Why I Am Voting For Hillary Clinton
Like many of you I've a lot of acquaintances who are on, shall we say, the conservative side of the street when it comes to politics....
Clinton-Trump Probably Won’t Be The Next ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’
[caption id="attachment_151259" align="aligncenter" width="575"] President Harry S. Truman gleefully displays a premature early edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune from his train in St. Louis,...
How Does the Electoral College Actually Work?
In the 2000 US presidential election, Vice President Al Gore received 543,000 more votes than his rival, George W. Bush, then governor of Texas. But...
Trump’s Missing Emails
Close Over the course of decades, Donald Trump’s companies have systematically destroyed or hidden thousands of emails, digital records and paper documents demanded in official...
How Julian Assange Makes a Mockery of the Diplomacy That He Enjoys
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. The U.S. election has given WikiLeaks an opportunity to revive its image as a world leader in “transparency”...
The most likely impact of the latest FBI Clinton email probe
Gaming out the political fallout from the latest FBI letter and the best way to do so is to compare it to the effect of the FBI report in July and to fallout to Trump after the Access Hollywood tape and accusations appeared.
Donald Trump: Caught In His Own Rigging
My grandmother used to tend a little garden that gradually grew to occupy most of a fairly large backyard. I never knew how she managed...
An Englishman Wants To Know: Does America Deserve a Donald Trump?
This is not a political contribution. I would like that to be understood from the start or, as this is an American thing I'm writing...