Photo Credit: Shane Armas Korpisto In recent years, many a Western journalist has descended upon the Lebanese capital of Beirut to captivate audiences with tales of the magically multisectarian life in the city, with its seemingly irreconcilable elements: Hezbollah and nightclubs, hijabs and billboard lingerie ads. In 2010, The New York Times travel section discovered that, “[i]n […]

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  Image Credit: Edel Rodriguez  The grumpy old man with the disheveled hair has revealed himself a veritable political juggernaut. In Iowa, Bernie Sanders fought Hillary Clinton to a near tie. In New Hampshire, he rolled to a 22-point victory. It is an extraordinary vindication of an argument liberal Democrats like me have been making since the 1980s, when […]

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Sophia Oldsman   They’re assholes, really, New Hampshire primary voters. At Gilchrist Metal Fabricating’s grimy factory in Hudson the day before the primary, during what the Granite State for some reason calls a “town hall meeting,” Chris Christie tells an illustrative story. One of these indigenous Granite State prima donnas buttonholed him, he says, to […]

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  Photo Credit: Jack Tuesday, March 1, is election day in Texas. If you vote in the Democratic primary, your choice for the presidential nomination is not just between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. There are six other candidates on the Democratic ballot, three of whom are Texans: Calvis L. Hawes, of Hawkins; Star Locke, of […]

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Photo Credit: Michael Vadon The 2016 presidential primary has featured a whole host of new lows. From a neo-fascist, crony-capitalist Republican front-runner, to the repeated attempts at red-baiting on the Democratic side against a Democratic socialist, no less, we’re on track for a Super Tuesday race to the bottom. A little over a week before 12 […]

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