A defeated Armenia descends into turmoil
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia has been entirely dependent on Russian support
Kamalafornication
The Vice President and the politics of solipsism
We keep hearing about the end of California. The cost of living, the homelessness, the public schools, the shoddy roads and bridges have prompted a decades-long exodus that has accelerated dramatically in the Age of the Pandemic. The progressive canard — but everyone wants to be here! — is a canard, and it’s being used to…
Cockburn
Who is really pushing misinformation?
Two House Representatives want channels they don’t like taken off air
Neera Tanden is being treated differently because she’s a woman
There’s no way a man with her track record would ever be nominated for the Biden cabinet
Biden goes back to school with Dr Fauci
You have to listen to the science even when the science is telling you stuff you already know
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Hellcat on the loose: Samantha Markle rants about Meghan
The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister: A Memoir, Part One by Samantha Markle reviewed
Joan Didion’s needle-sharp eye never fails
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion reviewed
Netflix’s Pelé contains nothing you couldn’t get from Wikipedia or YouTube
Pelé reviewed
Did PBS and Henry Louis Gates downplay crimes against humanity?
Gates never once uttered the words ‘genocide’, ‘extermination’ or even ‘ethnic cleansing’ to describe Ottoman atrocities
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My failed attempt to unite the Upstate New York literary scene
If the stars of the generation then passing burned less brightly in the firmament, well, then it was up to me to illuminate them
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I have a lot to learn from my experiment in skating, beyond just spins and jumps
When migrants come, culture migrates too
Politicians and the mainstream media in Europe have done their best to downplay the post-2015 wave of harassment or assault
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