A Republican ‘tyranny of the minority’ white rule

Elie Mystal, The Nation’s justice correspondent, has an excellent piece. Republican Senators Just Sold Out Democracy: The Republican Party has acquitted President Donald Trump. That result was always the most likely outcome of the impeachment process. The inability of even 20 Republican senators to break free from the cult of Trump was widely assumed. But it … Read more

Iowa 2020: Did They Really Need That Stupid App in the First Place?

The incompetent display by the Iowa Democratic Party and its app developer, Shadow, Inc., was astonishing. As far as the Party goes, however, the incompetence started and ended with the decision to hire an app developer to handle the caucus results in the first place. Even if the app had worked perfectly, the incompetence of … Read more