THE BANALITY OF MAGA Robert Harrington | 9:00 pm EST March 1, 2024 Palmer Report » Analysis self portrait of Harrington? In the evangelical part of my youth, from my late teens to my late twenties, I, like others of the tribe, was principally concerned with two enthusiasms, the advent of the Lord and the identity of the Antichrist. …
BIDEN’S CHANCES DEC 30 2023 Biden’s 2024 chances are much stronger than people realize. Two things have happened to Trump since 2020 that are going to make it very hard for him to win in 2024. By Simon Rosenberg, Democratic strategist As we head into 2024, the conventional wisdom is that Democrats are on the…
The Twilight Zone Robert Harrington | 7:29 pm EST December 23, 2023 Palmer Report » Analysis I recommend it if you haven’t seen the 1962 episode of “The Twilight Zone” called “To Serve Man.” The spoiler will follow: A giant race of ostensibly benign aliens come to earth. They thaw the suspicions of the leaders of earth with gifts…
Katy Guest The queen of Countdown’s dictionary corner on the power of positive language and finding joy in ‘mubble fubbles’ Sat 23 Sep 2023 11.00 BST Copied Katy Guest article from THE GUARDIAN newspaper Perhaps the world’s most famous lexicographer, Susie Dent is certainly one of the most positive people on British TV. For 31…
If we can’t make this happen, we won’t achieve any of the rest of it. It’s not racial equality, nor inflation, nor a woman’s autonomy over her own body, nor the war in Ukraine, nor extreme poverty, nor even finally and at long last putting Trump in prison that is the most urgent task before…
History will judge Republicans who stay silent about the big lie Robert Reich Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Fewand The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix…
Image credit: “Icon of the laborers in the vineyard,” Ted at Flickr, Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.0 Generic. Thanks in no small part to folks like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, everyone is talking about socialism these days. Unfortunately, many Christians seem to be under the impression that socialism is at odds with their faith. Plenty of…
The Amazingly Cool Anna’s Hummingbird Scoffs at Winter Vancouver’s official bird is a sex-crazed, smart, supercharged recent arrival. Written by Kerry Banks Today Dec. 27, 2021 | in TheTyee.ca Kerry Banks is an award-winning magazine journalist and author. His works include Pavel Bure: The Riddle of the Russian Rocket and record books on hockey, baseball and…
The Book Club That Helped Spark the Gay-Rights Movement In the nineteen-fifties, the Cory Book Service quietly connected a community. Then it was forgotten. By Michael Waters October 5, 2021 APPEARED IN THE NEW YORKER In the late nineteen-thirties, Gonzálo Segura, known to his friends as Tony, enrolled at Emory University to study biochemistry. He graduated…
Gaming out the end of the filibuster Bill Palmer | 9:09 am EST January 29, 2021 Palmer Report » Analysis Back in 2018, liberal pundits – on TV and online – collectively decided that Trump was about to pardon his co-conspirators at any moment, and that it would cause him to magically win, and we’d all be screwed. This…
