Even in my liberal-as-hell school, where more than a few teachers boasted of having purposefully earned below the threshold so they didn’t have to pay income taxes during the Vietnam war, I’m not sure I ever received a proper education on the Civil War. Sure, we learned all about slavery, how evil slavery was, and…

Trump has officially lost any claim to any moral ground he ever had a chance of having—not that he ever did. If he has to be arm-twisted into denouncing white supremacists and neo-nazi violence (but has no problem denouncing and making threats against a CEO who resigns his manufacturing council), what kind of human…

For anyone who really wants to help, perhaps a good place to start is to register to vote. It doesn’t take long and both instagram and twitter (ok maybe not the latter) will still be there when you’re done—and your pithy comments will be as worthless then as they are now. Set calendar reminders for the date of the…

Anyone who is running for higher political office, generally, wants power. It’s just a question of how benevolently or malevolently they intend to wield it (and what they’re willing to do to get it, and keep it). Dany probably has better intentions than Cersei and the Lannisters (who are basically the Trumps—for…

These magazines exist only for and because of real estate brokerages, whose ads increasingly fill the pages as most other luxury goods brands make the switch to digital.

I know they make up his political base, but it’s still hard to understand how as a lifetime New Yorker, he doesn’t read these people for the hateful, ignorant rednecks they are. Besides, the Confederacy lost—we should have ripped down these statues in 1865.

Agreed. Micah Johnson wasn’t part of their group—he had been rejected from BLM and/or many groups like it. They disavowed his violence and made clear that’s not what they stand for.

Even though there shouldn’t be much nuance required to discern the difference between hate groups that advocate (and in this case, committed) violence against non-white people and spew hateful KKK and Nazi rhetoric, and advocate the supremacy of “whites” over “non-whites” and a group whose guiding principles are to…

The bottom line here is, what should Trump do? It doesn’t really matter at this point what Barack Obama did or didn’t do—he’s not the President anymore. If you think it was wrong that Obama didn’t connect Micah Johnson with BLM (even though I think Obama was correct to tread lightly there), then you should be angry…

Let’s also all agree to stop comparing people and things to the KKK and/or the Holocaust/Hitler, unless they actually warrant the comparison by their activities. Not being all-in for charter schools does not warrant such a comparison, and is sensible, considering that while charter schools (or at least some of them)…

What is the legal definition of “speaking english” for the purposes of immigration/naturalization? Do you have to talk at least as good as the President? Or does it actually require being able to speak in complete sentences?

as fucked up as this is, it’s a problem that is pretty easily solved. The democratic campaign can buy advertising and do a social media campaign and do other things to get the word out.

I know, but still surprising that he seems to be so OK with all of it.

I still don’t understand how someone with as much education as Kris Kobach (Harvard, summa cum laude; MA & PhD from Oxford, Marshall Scholar; Yale Law School, law review) can actually believe the unfounded garbage that comes out of his own mouth.

While I believe it’s of paramount importance to protect a woman’s right to choose, perhaps the absence of a litmus test will make the general conversation less about abortion and more about other things. I really liked and respected Tim Kaine’s position on abortion, which is that he personally doesn’t believe in it…

Firing Sessions would be the most politically fraught decision Trump could make right now. Aside from the fact that it would help to substantiate claims of Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice, Sessions is well liked among his former Senate colleagues, many of whom are already pretty fed up with President…

1999 and 2012. It was “Fattest Big City”, so maybe it still lost the crown to some smaller cities in the south. I remember when it happened in ‘99 Mayor John Street tried to start a citywide fitness initiative that got lots of play on the local news.

Having grown up and lived in Philly, there’s definitely some truth to her comments about the men and women from City of Brotherly Love. The home of the cheesesteak has also been rated America’s Fattest City on several occasions. However, as the most casually aggressive city in the country (where getting your ass beat…

Unless it’s a daycare center that unleashes the power of technology and big data to create a nurturing environment that produces Harvard and Yale acceptances... or a charter school... there’s nothing glamorous or sexy, and raising money may be difficult.

If daycare would make so much money, then people would probably be doing it. Between rent, licensing and insurance, daycares aren’t such cheap and easy businesses to run, and require more qualified people than opening a restaurant. I’ve heard this complaint every time I’ve been to a community board hearing—everybody…