Our president, by his failure to either condemn or act, continues to shield key persons and entities in Russia from the sanctions and other repercussions they deserve in response to cyberattacks on… Read more »

Now that he has some spare time on his hands, former FBI director James Comey—who was suddenly, unceremoniously dismissed from his post in May—is apparently shopping a book proposal around… Read more »

By now, unless you’ve already sealed the reinforced doors of your subterranean shelter, you know that President Donald Trump summarily fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday. It was a move that provided unneeded answers to… Read more »

It’s about the splendor of Washington that has been the magnificence of its marble, of its pretensions, of its bureaucratic vastness, so that it has become like a palace at Versailles.… Read more »

Well, okay. Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP candidate for president, isn’t much of a reader, as the Washington Post’s Marc Fisher reports. And, well, yeah, really, no one, absolutely no one, is surprised. Back… Read more »

A recent study conducted by Slate confirms that trade history books—those intended for a general audience, not a solely academic one—are (big surprise) mostly written by men. Of the study,… Read more »

Topics discussed: Paul and Linda McCartney, Wings, Paul McCartney and Wings, The Fireman, the big questions, President Obama, Thomas Pynchon, Alex’s family, Pontius Pilate, Satan, Jesus, Richard Farina, mustaches, V,… Read more »

Turns out research libraries are collecting all kinds of things these days… Read more »