We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2026

Extraordinary end to the AFCON final. Whoever resolves this impasse deserves the FIFA Peace Prize

One thing that's always been true about Sotomayor is that she, more than any other justice, focuses on the litigants before her. All the others focus more on the larger legal issue of the case, but Sotomayor never takes her eye off the ball of the people involved. It's my favorite thing about her.

Democrats will continue to vote for Republican judges (like this guy, who refused to say who won the 2020 election) until Democrats are punished for voting for Republican judges

Mamdani will be sworn in in the station that inspired the Turtles lair in TMNT 2: The Secret Of The Ooze

We are getting to the point where white collar criminals are thinking, "why take the plea deal my high-priced lawyer negotiated when I can just bribe the President and skip jail altogether?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

Happy Pop-Tarts Bowl Day to all who celebrate

MCC staff mowing the pitch now that the Test is over inside two days is a late contender for best comedy in 2025

This is the stupidest day of cricket since yesterday. #Ashes 🏏

If this goes right down to the wire Steve Smith might look back at his decisions of giving away all those strikes at the end. Also Beau Webster needs to be in team for Sydney

What we’re seeing in this series is actually the start of England’s long-term plan to win back the Ashes by denying Cricket Australia day 3/4/5 ticket sales and by doing so eventually bankrupting them. 4D chess

The last two day Test to see all 40 wickets fall was in 1888. With 26 wickets in just 98 overs, this match is keeping pace

Bazball is watching your bowling attack's muscles explode and your fielders drop catches while also refusing to train or play warm up matches. Nothing but immaculate vibes

No matter how you slice it, both teams getting bowled out on day 1 of a test match cannot be good for the game

Last year, MCG was a win toss bat first pitch. AUS made 474. Bumrah took 9 wickets in the match (arguably his greatest match bowling performance). What would he have done on this MCG pitch in the form he was in last year would have been historic

After the first innings, the two captains should agree to ask the ground curator to run the lawn mover on this pitch for the second innings

They should invent a form of cricket that goes for five days

This is the way

the vice president is a klansman

Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election

The day it happens, nobody better be out here policing all the jokes and laughs we’re gonna get off. Understand?

One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.

What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...

Give me a playoff series with these two teams healthy this spring!

Seattle’s defense taking this as disrespect and taking out on whoever the Colts QB is will be cinema

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

Brazil v Morocco? Say no more

Infantino said this isn’t “a normal draw” That was at least thing said on stage that was true There were moments that approached propaganda, especially in the highly politicised interpretations to justify Trump’s Peace Prize - a debasing of football www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Inject this into my veins right now. A super dose would include prominent baseball players mocking Roberts on Opening Day, but will settle for this expansion, ethics, and limits governances package today.

war crimes vs. crimes against humanity. why not both?

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine. “They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Jeremiah Smith really is Julio Jones 2.0

If FIFA has been unable to get a visa to enter the US for a member of its own competitions organizing committee, it doesn't bode well for fans at the World Cup. apnews.com/article/iran...

Not beating the “America invades countries to grab their oil” allegations

ole miss job is now spoken for

Sometimes I can laugh at the president or roll my eyes when he says something wild or ridiculous. This one just makes me so sad. So deeply sad. I imagine some of you feel the same. Please recognize that, care for it and yourself. It’s rough out there.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.

Hail and farewell, Lenny Wilkens

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position