Month: August 2017

New Zealand Labour boss rebuffs TV host’s sexist question | DW | On her first full day in her new job as the youngest leader in the New Zealand Labour Party’s history and the second woman to fill the role, Jacinda...

Last December, the news was ‘Inconvenient Truth 2′ being released next year.  It’s now “next year,” so the news is How Donald Trump Made `An Inconvenient Sequel’ 10 Times More Relevant....

While I last mentioned gerrymandering and redistricting at my blog in John Oliver and Vox examine gerrymandering, the issue has continued to make news.  The top story on the issue is that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed...

It’s painful to read the two posts I wrote last October explaining why I believed that Paul Ryan’s career as Speaker of the House was coming to an end. The analysis was solid, but it was premised on Hillary Clinton...

There’s probably a chapter by Sun Tzu that addresses the dangers of dealing with an adversary that is so transparently stupid that their actions are impossible to predict. I may need to go hunt that down, because I’m...