Blogs about Politics

The US president’s executive order on South Africa isn’t about fairness—it’s a cynical ploy to stoke racial paranoia and shore up his right-wing base. Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour, Public Domain. Amidst the …

That Donald Trump, coming over here and tearing up the post-war international order, putting a question mark over the United States' support for Europe and chumming up to Vladimir Putin. His second coming has continued …

Tired of college sports teams called Eagles, Tigers, Bulldogs and Wildcats? Balladeer’s Blog showcases another institution with a more creative team name. JOHN MELVIN UNIVERSITY Team Name: MILLERS Location: Crowley, LA Conference: New South Athletic …

I’ve written the third in a series of six posts that will be coming out with the Streit Council, on the problem of economic integration without political union. There’s no paywall. You can read it …

Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn’t quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered …

I am too dizzy and shocked from current affairs to discuss them in a blog essay, too tired from winter and other things to continue with a new essay about pharmacokinetics for novelists and aspiring …

Sam Hall is Director of the Conservative Environmental Network and a former policy advisor to Michael Gove at Defra. On occasion, Reform has managed to pull off a reasonable impression of a libertarian, free-market party. …

Complaints about declining standards of government scrutiny by parliament have been commonplace in recent times – particularly during the troubled years of Brexit and Covid. But how can such claims be objectively assessed, and crucially, …

Two legal scholars whose work I admire have a useful analysis in the Times of all the steps courts can take during an escalating constitutional crisis. But the last part of their analysis really shocked …

Matt and Sam talk to Luke Mayville of Reclaim Idaho about progressive organizing in rural and red America.

Adams Administration in Crisis The ongoing soap opera in New York City delivered another oh-so-exciting episode yesterday, as four high-ranking members of the city government tendered their resignations. Click here for full story

Robert Evans invited me to read my poem “The Time of Cowards” on the episode covering Trump’s 2025 inauguration, and I was honored to do so.

State-sponsored rape, lies and deception – then a cover-up operating right across official life. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th November 2024 It’s the testimony we’ve long been waiting for. On Monday, at …

The tacit alliance between Donald Trump and the mainstream media--both of which enjoy making him the center of attention--is, I think, making it much harder for Americans to understand what is happening to our country, …

“Just as every fiber of every testosterone-injected muscle of the executive branch is being flexed in an effort to terrify and threaten people who have still not gained full equality in this country, the press …

So, I don’t really write here any more. I write at drafts.interfluidity.com instead. Please follow that feed or subscribe by e-mail. I do still offer periodic roundups here of what I’ve been up to! And …

Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for …

Marion Milner believed in the importance of creative fulfilment (the ‘genius’ inside every one of us) and offered a kind of manual for finding it. From her earliest self-experiments through decades of psychoanalytic practice she …

Few alliance nations would ponder how the cadence of Netanyahu’s speech inside Congress put them under the spell of denial. This is akin to the Khmer Rouge (government in exile) that was invited to hold …

Ken Ham is excited about another discovery of traces of collagen in dinosaur bones. Me? I’m saying ho-hum, it’s mildly interesting, but it’s not what you think it is. Kenny-boy thinks it’s evidence that the …