This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Last Wednesday, it was reported that Donald Trump was moving to nominate Raytheon lobbyist Mark Esper for secretary of the Army. Raytheon is one of the “big five” defense contractors, and the president’s decision...
Philadelphia gave us an oligarch devised Constitution. Benjamin Franklin told an inquirer that the framers had given us, "a republic, if you can keep it." May we never have had it. The idea of the res publica: "the public thing", creates two categories of things we...
Because God loves to fuck with me, yesterday Snapchat pushed a two-year-old Refinery29 essay into my feed that threw me into a very late-to-the-party rage, which I tweeted rabidly. Its subject matter was polyamory -- namely, one couple's selfish quest to find a...
Trump tweets on the ending of arms and assistance to Syrian rebels. Trump said the program was dangerous and wasteful. [Link] A Florida police officer was fired for having several complaints against him and tampering with evidence. The officer was rehired by the same...
