Voting for a GOP candidate for the Senate or House is a vote for Trump, period. The amazing thing is that Collins’s reaction to Clayton’s nomination, and to his disciplined refusal to contradict Trump’s election lies, did not even rise to the level of concern. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

Lindsey Graham actually died a long time ago. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/o...

Why are younger voters turning to socialism? Because boomers have helped to put the USA on the road to bankruptcy, that's why. Not ok, boomers. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Reject this fascist. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/o...

The double-standard of the corrupt Roberts court. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

So productivity grew. Why didn't inflation-adjusted wages keep pace? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/b...

The headline says it all: "He Says He Killed a Man. Republicans Nominated Him Anyway." Ladies and gentlemen, the GOP's nominee for the next governor of Colorado. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...

Some US people say you can't be Christian and be a socialist, but based on the words of Jesus in the gospels I'm beginning to think you can't be a Christian and be a member of the bourgeoisie.

He sold out. "Graham’s motivations remain a mystery. Perhaps he craved proximity to power. Perhaps he feared losing his Senate seat, and with it any claim to relevance. Deep down, though, he must have known he was betraying the ideals of his younger self." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Spoiler alert: it's the US. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...

If Simone from Ferris Bueller's Day Off was born two decades later, she could have landed a spot on the WSJ's Free Ex team, with her deep grasp of tracking down sources. www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBt...

I remember when Bob and Elizabeth Dole had to calm the press by assuring them their personal assets were held in a blind trust. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

A new article in Horizons by Doris Kieser. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Democrats have trouble with policy because they are badly split on whether to not to repudiate the Clinton-era rightward move on economics. Dems must realize they've played on GOP/Reagan turf since 1994, with disastrous results for the working and middle classes. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...

"Ahead of the 2024 election, an NBC News poll of 1,000 voters found that Joe Biden had a 49-point lead among respondents who read newspapers. Trump has pioneered a style of communication that exploits our distracted, disputatious age." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The charts in this article are illuminating and disturbing. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The fascists go after scientists in Trump's emerging Reich. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

"The reality is this: for a significant segment of American Christianity, the faith has been quietly, gradually, and almost completely converted into a vehicle for cultural power and societal control." - Tim Whitaker

One born every minute. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

"The federal government now spends six times as much on (usually wealthy) seniors as it spends on individuals under the age of 26." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In its attempt to sever its 56-year old legal relationship with its two faculty unions, St. John's University has now sued the State of New York. (1) www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Labor organizing on campus is vitally needed in academia. It’s also a necessary step in connecting academics to the other workers facing the same struggles. trib.al/MlHJL0K

Strip mining for the digital age of AI. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d...

Another day, more Trump grift. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Just a reminder that patriotism isn't holding a bible and wrapping yourself in the flag while you violate the Constitution and plunder the country. Happy 4th of July, stay cool and safe!!

There was always a contradiction between Trump's economic populism and the DOGE/techno-bros who financed his political rise. Communism, now redefined as anything to the left of Reagan, has become Trump's excuse for selling out the blue-collar MAGA base. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The Second Vatican Council was a wonderful blessed event. open.substack.com/pub/thepilla...

80-year old Trump said he wants to make a really long speech tomorrow in sweltering DC. I'm thinking about what happened to Zachary Taylor on July 4, 1850.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Roma locuta; causa finita est.

The best-dressed cafeteria Catholics you will ever find. Defying pope and facing excommunication, SSPX consecrates bishops at huge outdoor Mass www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...

I eagerly await Bishop Robert Barron's denunciation of this incident. /s wapo.st/3SSUALi

The reason that tech-bro libertarians call in MAGA racists to be their political allies is because the tech-bros know their economic platform would be soundly defeated at the polls come election time. Put in high school terms, this is like nerds behaving badly by hiring the class bullies.

St. John's University is suing New York claiming that its Catholic mission is threatened by continuing to recognize a union with which it bargained for 56 years. In its suit, St. John's calls all of its faculty "ministers" and "catechists." Most faculty and most students at SJU aren't Catholic.

The debacle on the National Mall captures an administration in free fall—and a president who is only interested in celebrating himself. trib.al/QHm7gZB

I'll take democratic socialism over fascism in a heartbeat.

A phenomenal essay about the 4th of July. "I don’t know whether the United States of America will ever reach its tricentennial, but if it does, it will be because . . . the country is once again governed by people who believe in an American union." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump is a living example of grift on an unprecedented scale. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

All "Roman Catholics" who reject the teachings of the Second Vatican Council should go join the SSPX and leave Roman Catholicism. They are the equivalent of 4th-century Arians, and it is time to put an end to the decades-long attempt by the Vatican to placate them.

The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.

Summary from today's Supreme Court decisions: Trump can fire any executive branch employee he wants except for those at the Federal Reserve because rich people's money is more important than education, than the integrity of federal prosecutors, than public health. "Balls and strikes" my behind.

“'They were coming there for football,' he said. 'Anything academic was very secondary.'” www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

He'll do the same thing in November. President Trump told "supporters that he called a federal prosecutor in the state shortly after the June 2 primary election and demanded an investigation into whether the slow-moving vote count was 'rigged.'” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/u...

Educational institutions can only survive with collective social effort. Universities will continue to die as long as the current culture of individualism reigns. The struggles of higher education are not at root technological or economic. The struggles are philosophical and ideological.

This is the guy to whom Trump gave a no-bid contract to put in the filtration for the reflecting pool.

The new book *Regime Change* drops tomorrow. In it Trump describes Gary Player's golf caddy as "a presidential historian": truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/p...

The dystopian future if people don't make AI subordinate to the dignity of human laborers: "AI was supposed to alleviate people’s workload. Instead, with bots that can work while you sleep, we may be headed toward something like an infinite workweek." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I just heard a commencement address from a former US senator stating "automation is inevitable" and "lifelong work is a thing of the past." The senator extolled humanities education. But you can't have humanities education without educators, and you can't have educators by outsourcing to AI. (1/2)