I was speaking on the phone with a friend when he said something profound: “What’s a better expression of American freedom than rejecting your assigned gender at birth and just being whatever you want to be?”  He told me he said that to his conservative cousins in Michigan when they

Facebook is firmly planted in the hot seat this week, which, of course, means calls to repeal Section 230 are again at a fever pitch. But, there’s a lot of confusion over what and who the policy actually protects, and who stands to gain and lose in its potential reform.

It is well-known in political circles that a Republican bulk text message scheme has been spamming its users about 800 times a day begging for political contributions, and then using a “hidden pre-checked box” to bamboozle recurring donations out of people who had only meant to donate once. That’s totally

As a Jew, a loud obnoxious one at that, I’m also repeatedly flabbergasted that other Jews are Republicans. I’m not talking about the people who believe in small government and lower taxes – while I don’t agree with them, we can have a dialogue about our ideological differences. It’s the entire rest of the party that is so vile.

We don’t normally define women in positions of power by who they dated previously, that’s an old sexist trope. But we have to make an exception for Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, California governor Gavin Newsom’s ex-wife and now Donald Trump Jr.’s main squeeze, who last night delivered a galactically racist Republican convention

Oddsmakers have now given Donald Trump a less-than-50-percent chance of re-election less than a year from now — but for some Republicans, the president is approaching demigod status.  Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who has already announced that he will depart at the end of 2019 after getting swept up in

by Willem Frankenfort Impeachment proceedings have officially begun. From now on I will celebrate November 13th as Impeachment Day, Novemberteenth if you will. If the rest of the testimony is even half as damning as what we’ve already seen, we may yet wave goodbye to that syphilitic walrus we call

The calls, concerns, and frustrations of Trump supporters are genuine. Unfortunately, the elected savior for fixing these problems was an abysmal choice. Trump said all the right things to a group of people who were in fear, marginalization, and hopelessness