Booker showed MAGA Trump is more Thurmond than Eisenhower Senator Cory Booker made history this week, speaking on the Senate floor for 25 hours and 5 minutes. He was protesting the Trump administration’s cruel, corrupt, and unconstitutional policies. In doing so, Booker shattered Strom Thurmond’s infamous 1957 record of 24 hours and 18 minutes. Back… Read more.
France Bars Le Pen — Avoids Mistake US Made by Not Barring Trump
Marine Le Pen is the far-right firebrand who would be to France what Donald Trump has become to America. And in keeping with that fateful symmetry, she too is now a convicted felon. Of course, the charges Le Pen faced — misusing about €4.4 million in EU funds — pale in comparison with the four… Read more.
Haitian Migrants Don’t Plague the Caribbean. They Reflect It.
[Author’s Note: This commentary was originally published on March 31, 2005. Sadly, 20 years later, the more things have changed elsewhere, the more they’ve stayed the same in Haiti. So I’ve updated it — with a few new facts and, alas, the same old misery and hypocrisy.] Haitian migrants aren’t causing a crisis so much… Read more.
MAGA’s Education Policy Is MEAN: Make Education Awful Nationwide
That leaked Signal chat from Trump’s national security team proves why this administration’s cuts to education are the bureaucratic equivalent of cutting off its nose to spite its face. So the dumbest administration in US history is dismantling the Department of Education. The irony would be laughable – if it weren’t so, well, Orwellian. Still,… Read more.
Fentanyl Is China’s Revenge for Opium
By now, everyone knows China plays the long game. While Westerners obsess over the next election cycle, Chinese leaders map out five-year plans like dynastic lords plotting for generations. But waiting centuries to exact revenge for the Opium Wars by peddling fentanyl across America? That shows the patience of a stone Buddha — and a… Read more.
ICE Arrests Making America a Police State: First They Came for the Gangbangers, Then the Student Activists…
In recent months, ICE has carried out a series of alarming arrests. Most people didn’t care when agents rounded up alleged Latino gangbangers and shipped them to de facto concentration camps in El Salvador. But now they’re unnerved. Because ICE is targeting foreign students for activities protected under the First Amendment. The Case of Rumeysa… Read more.
Sentebale Charity Is the Latest Casualty of Harry and Meghan’s Toxic Royalty
Exiled royals playing A-list celebrity “She thinks she’s the messiah” — that’s how palace courtiers summed up Meghan Markle behind closed doors, long before Megxit. She saw herself as a savior. Harry saw her as a queen to be worshipped, even if it meant defying the actual one. His pussywhipped devotion made lovesick puppies look… Read more.
Careless Trump War Cabinet Sends War Plans to Journalist
MAGA hypocrisy in mishandling classified intel In a stunning display of incompetence, Trump’s national security team inadvertently shared classified war plans for Yemen with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz accidentally added him to a Signal group chat where they discussed operational details for a mission executed days later. But let’s be… Read more.
Independent South Sudan Remains Hopelessly Divided Against Itself
Once again, South Sudan teeters on the brink of civil war. The unity government between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar is unraveling — fueled by ethnic violence, political purges, and fresh militia clashes. With embassies closing and UN warnings mounting, the world’s youngest country seems hell-bent on repeating its blood-soaked past. The… Read more.
NCAA Bracketology: The Madness Isn’t the Upsets — It’s the Gambling
Every March, Americans pretend they’re just in it for the love of the game. But when office pools, online betting apps, and billion-dollar bracket challenges flood the airwaves, it’s clear: March Madness isn’t about basketball — it’s about the high. And like any addiction, it doesn’t matter how impossible the odds are (at 1 in… Read more.