Current Affairs

Brooks: When the World Is Led by a Child

Conservative NYT columnist David Brooks yesterday wrote devastatingly about our 45th president: We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent…

IDAHOT

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia

@ManyVoicesOrg writes: Today’s the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia. It’s never been more timely to love & affirm LGBTQ people. #IDAHOT Amen.

Erdoğan supporters attack peaceful protesters in D.C.

The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) shares video of Kurdish, Yezidi, and Armenian human rights protesters in Washington, D.C. being attacked by suspected members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip…

Stephen’s monologue is declassified

This farce needs to end. But most Republicans in Congress are still hiding under their desks.

Bullying’s grim consequences continue

Samantha Schmidt Reports at WaPo: Security camera footage captured the scene in a Cincinnati elementary school bathroom on Jan. 24. But as the school has so far declined to release…

Donald Tump and James Comey

Comey was fired for refusing to pledge personal loyalty to Trump

Michael S. Schmidt reports at NYT: Only seven days after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president, James B. Comey has told associates, the F.B.I. director was summoned to…

Anderson and Kellyanne, comedy duo from hell

I’ll have an eyeroll with that! Anderson Cooper does a good job of skeptically grilling Kellyanne Conway as she unleashes her usual torrent of brazen, patronizing lies. But what is…

“Pray with me, Henry.”

The leftists who were so upset with Hillary Clinton for being friendly with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger must be comforted to see him visiting Mr. Trump in the…

Trump fires the FBI director who is investigating him

On Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey: We have traversed similar territory before. I was 17 and 18 when the Nixon administration was coming apart. I remember where I…

Stephen Fry

Irish Police Investigate Stephen Fry for Blasphemy

Liam Stack and Ed O’Loughlin report at NYT: The British actor Stephen Fry is known as many things: a witty television presenter, a roguish Twitter personality and an outspoken atheist….