Sophrosyne

As many have noted, Trump's nonstop barrage of falsehoods has left those still grounded in some semblance of reality dazed if not numb: the normal tools of "fact checking" and presidential campaign coverage are simply not equipped to deal with such an...

No one was more capitalistic than the Boston descendants of the Puritan founders of America. The old families of Beacon Hill were the captains of every money-making venture in the early years of the Republic: finance, trade, railroads, textile mills...

After proposing that "the Second Amendment people" might have a certain solution to protect their God-given rights should Hillary Clinton be elected president, Trump and his increasingly inventive apologists offered a smorgasbord of excuses for a candidate...

By now nothing I suppose can surprise us that comes out of the mouth of Donald Trump, but I still find myself with a capacity to be astounded at the mealy-mouthed excuses, sleazy evasions, and pusillanimous justifications offered by Republican officials...