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The cynicism spouted by war profiteer Harry Lime (Orson Welles) in this famous scene from Sir Carol Reed’s The Third Man feels oddly current seven decades later. Set in Vienna’s…

I have just been followed on Twitter by someone purporting to be the president of Syria. This reminds me of the time when someone claiming to be AG Eric Holder…

(Photo by James A. Parcell/The Washington Post) Martin Weil reports at The Washington Post: Sharon Ambrose, who served on the D.C. Council for 10 years, died Saturday night at George…

The next president may well make me cry, though outrage and disgust are likelier reactions; but I doubt he will ever make me cry the way President Obama did at…

The next president may well make me cry, though outrage and disgust are likelier reactions; but I doubt he will ever make me cry the way President Obama did at…

56 years ago today, Congolese prime minister and anticolonial leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. https://t.co/RCRrP1STOg pic.twitter.com/BzgvlJssBo — Jacobin (@jacobinmag) January 17, 2017 Under orders from outgoing President Eisenhower, the United…

MLK III has just met at the Trump Tower with Herr Twitler. However that went (and in his exit remarks to the press he bent over backwards to be diplomatic),…

Is it O.K. to declare the man about to become president illegitimate? Yes, it's patriotic. https://t.co/4x2PWzJCly pic.twitter.com/84kHxvu91N — NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) January 16, 2017 Paul Krugman gets it exactly right….

This photo, surprisingly enough, is not an advertisement for Haisten’s Mattress & Awning Company. It is a news photo of nonviolent protesters being savagely beaten by Alabama state troopers for…

I wish he could have grown old as we who were left grew old (to borrow a WWI text). His widow and orphans suffered most directly from his death at…