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Opinion & Essay

U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, M.D., sits with Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Veteran's Affairs Committee, before their meeting on Capitol Hill, Monday, April 16, 2018 in Washington.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Ronny Jackson and the Trump cult of incompetence

Ronny is on the rocks. Gee, What a surprise.

8 years ago

Evan Lovett said when he was injured in a fire it made him realize how important being able to draw and paint was to me. (Photo courtesy of  Wes Genarie.)
Speak Easy
Community

Devastating fire made him realize his love of art

Despite my addictive personality, I have lived my entire life free of alcohol and drugs. I've substituted work.

8 years ago

Andrew Mars
Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

Protest pop: On creativity as resistance

As I embark on my third solo album, I find myself in a culture that increasingly sells its soul, in the name of money, in the name of sex.

8 years ago

Former FBI Director James Comey and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Susan Walsh and Patrick Semansky AP Photos)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

James Comey’s original sin still resonates

James Comey is currently touring the nation as Donald Trump’s nemesis, which is fine. But if not for Comey’s inexplicable int ...

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Where have all the public bathrooms gone?

8 years ago

Police tape blocks off a Waffle House restaurant Sunday, April 22, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. At least four people died after a gunman opened fire at the restaurant early Sunday. (Mark Humphrey/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The ‘well-regulated Militia’ hits the Waffle House

It was just another standard all-American shooting — guy with an AR-15 kills people at a restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee — but it ...

8 years ago

Idalmis Garcia Rodriguez in “¡Bienvenidos Blancos!” from Team Sunshine Performance Corporation, at FringeArts.  (Photo courtesy of Kate Raines/Plate 3 Photography)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

‘¡Bienvenidos Blancos!’ — Welcome, White People! — to Cuba, from Team Sunshine

How the history of Cuba and the revolution continues to shape the identities of Cubans and their American kin.

8 years ago

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First
Politics & Policy

Ban it or not? Gun control opponents want it both ways

Legislators in the First State are still actually working toward passing small but meaningful gun control legislation. That said, things are moving slowly.

8 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden participates in a discussion on bridging political and partisan divides with Ohio Gov. John Kasich at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del., last month.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Three reasons why Joe Biden should run in 2020

Biden signaled again last Sunday that he's weighing the race.

8 years ago

In this Jan. 29, 2018, file photo, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens speaks in Palmyra, Mo. Attorneys defending Greitens against an invasion-of-privacy charge are raising doubts about the testimony of a woman with whom he had an affair. In a court filing dated Sunday, April 8, 2018, his attorneys say the woman testified she never saw Greitens with a camera or phone on the day he is accused of taking a partially nude photo of her while she was blindfolded and bound. (Jeff Roberson/AP Photo, File)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Missouri’s Republican sex scandal is way better than Trump’s

Need a break from Trump? Come with me to Missouri.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

This is how Trump is destroying the Republican Party

The party of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass has emerged as the party of intolerance and exclusion in the 21st century.

8 years ago

(G. Victoria/Bigstock)
Speak Easy
Community

In lieu of Starbucks

In Germantown coffee shop, a counterpoint to Rittenhouse Square Starbucks incident

8 years ago

George Soros, a New York hedge fund billionaire and longtime bankroller of liberal political causes.  (Ferdinand Ostrop/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Why are right-wing paranoids so obsessed with George Soros?

It was inevitable that right-wing fans of the Trump-Cohen-Hannity troika would try to slime the federal judge who’s handling the Mi ...

8 years ago

In this March 4, 2016, file photo, Sean Hannity of Fox News arrives in National Harbor, Md. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo, file)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Sean Hannity’s cozy conflict-of-interest hackery

It’s exquisitely delicious that Michael Cohen’s mysterious third client turns out to be Sean Hannity. But the news barely bud ...

8 years ago

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives to address an interactive session on "America, India and Democracy in the 21st Century" in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006. The session was organized by The Aspen Institute India and Confederation of Indian Industry. Also seen background right is President of The Aspen Institute India Tarun Das. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Madeleine Albright: Democrats share blame in the rise of Trump

Madeleine Albright's new book, "Fascism, A Warning," is an eloquent diagnosis of the grassroots ills that threaten democracies and give rise to demagogues like Donald Trump.

8 years ago

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