In what has to be a last-ditch attempt to appear prepared for the Republican National Convention, President Donald Trump’s campaign released its complete list of more than 70 speakers for the convention Sunday. On it, Trump’s relatives and the likes of staffers including Kellyanne Conway are described as “honorable.

In late May of this year, Father John Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame (UND), penned in the The New York Times what certainly ranks as one of the more sanctimonious op-eds ever published, in the Times or anywhere else, for that matter. He forcefully declared that his university would safely reopen in the fall, despite the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, aka COVID-19.

Citing his Catholic education (which he pointed out he shared with luminaries such as Dr.

After sending out a survey to thousands of its staff members on racism Wednesday, the United Nations (U.N.) has been accused of racism itself. The survey included a question that requested individuals to identify themselves and listed “yellow” as an option, a term often used like “the orient” as a slur against Asian Americans. 

According to Reuters the survey entitled the “U.N.

It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can catch up any time: Just visit our group or follow the Nuts & Bolts Guide. For years, I’ve built this guide around questions that get submitted, hoping to help small candidates field questions.

One of the nervous tics of the Donald Trump “administration” is a seeming obsession with new arms sales. Trump himself has boasted of and promoted the sales, and began doing so early on; he seems to regard weapons sales as something in his Professional Businessguy comfort zone, something with numbers attached, and hardball negotiations needed, and lots of opportunities for grifting around the edges.