Federal authorities should be on notice that arresting and imprisoning anyone simply for burning their own flag in protest is a violation of the First Amendment. The person doing the unlawful burning here is the president, who is burning the Constitution with his directives.

Our "enemies" aren't liberals. Our "enemies" are the illiberals— on the right and left (but the right really has its foot on the gas)— and their apologists. This is oftentimes a difficult concept for those who sold out their principles to understand.

The greatest breakthrough in the science of learning over the last century:

Meeting of ages. Osaka, 1960

The Rise of the Smartphone and the Fall of Western Democracy nytimes.com/2025/10/14/opi…

We are fighting for true freedom. The freedom to live a life of dignity and joy. A life of 80 hour work weeks, of constantly struggling to get by, being trapped in a shitty job by your health insurance — this is not freedom, and we are not free. But we could be. If we fight.

There is a no greater patriotic, pro-American act than participating in a "no kings" demonstration. Please read the Declaration of Independence.

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

New evidence on the effect of cell phone bans in schools just dropped. "Enforcement of cellphone bans in schools led to a significant increase in student suspensions in the short-term ... but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year, potentially suggesting a

Right- because per their own admission, they’re post-liberal. Libertarians are big L liberals. The National Conservative movement is explicitly not. They’re fundamentally opposed to the principles we were founded on

This is a median response, so will use it as an example but not aimed at this comment. Would also suggest people go and listen to Graham Platner for Senate on Pod Save America. I have my suspicions that several of you have not. Fair to argue that Platner has more to do to assuage concerns

The idea that "We're in another Gilded Age" is thrown around a lot, and sometimes it's lazy and vague, but nakedly corrupt quid pro quo between plutocrats and bureaucrats—say, a convicted felon helping the president's family make a bunch of crypto money and getting his conviction

Absolutely extraordinary piece of work. The beauty-of-writing to beauty-of-subject-matter ratio here is out of this world and we should probably, as a species, hope it is never exceeded, because of what that would suggest about the future of humanity

The best way to understand what we’re living through is as an extended repeat of the dismantling of reconstruction. The liberal reforms of the civil rights era lasted longer than reconstruction, but were also less sweeping. They too are now being swept away

New from The New York Times: “The Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who have studied this phenomenon. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.”

Obama: It is not as if we didn't see some of this coming. I will admit it is worse than even I expected, but I did warn you all. I did. You can run the tape.  And by the way, he warned you too, because he said what he would do. But the fact is there were plenty of people who

Obama: America has always had competing stories about who we are and what the nation stands for. The first story says that even though we got rid of a king, there is still a caste system in America, a pecking order of who makes decisions That if somebody doesn't look like or

A new meta analysis of millions of online posters finds that moral-emotional language is perhaps the number 1 rocket-booster for traffic. Most ppl who spend time building an audience by posting online about politics (or anything) come to the same realization: high dudgeon

Regardless of what your opinion of him is- he’s good at this. Very good!

New newsletter: Democrats have a new winning formula. It’s the affordability theory of everything. 1. Cost of living is too high. 2. Blame Trump. 3. [My idea goes here] The ATOE has some subtle advantages. It’s a big tent strategy. Shifting their messaging from cultural issues