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Elon’s dubious British romance: He’s getting fleeced by a racist hustler

Elon Musk, it would appear, is afflicted with the variant form of anglophilia, touched with imperial nostalgia and misplaced envy, often found among bright young men from the colonies. If everything about that sentence seems hopelessly antiquated and out of…

November 2, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

How New York could have avoided a nasty mayoral election

New York City’s mayoral election is limping to such an ugly finish that it’s almost hard to pick the most distasteful moment. Well, that’s not entirely true. There’s a clear winner. It’s former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in an interview on…

November 2, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Red state workers could lose out on disability benefits as Trump admin rewrites eligibility rules

It’s never been easy to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. Christopher Tincher knows this firsthand. Tincher began his working life in a coal mine in Aflex, Kentucky, as a teenager in the 1980s. As mines across the region shuttered,…

November 2, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

The New York Times said it, then Trump proved it

Just before the election last year, the New York Times Opinion section published a stark, all-caps warning, both online and in print: “DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES, ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS, USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS, PLAY POLITICS WITH…

November 1, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“A taste of their own medicine”: Blue states go digital against Trump’s shutdown

As the federal government shutdown continues, Democratic-leaning states are turning state-run websites and online resources into a platform to push back against the Trump administration, and the SNAP freeze is at the center of the effort. Massachusetts’ SNAP page informs…

November 1, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Courts opt to feed the people, GOP opts to feeds the drama

With millions of Americans uncertain if they’ll receive their November food benefits, Republican leaders appear more focused on theatrics than governance. Roughly 42 million people rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but the ongoing government shutdown has frozen…

November 1, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Trump regime isn’t fascist, claims leading intellectual: It just looks that way

If there is one thing you are supposed to know about Mark Lilla, it is his status as a public intellectual. A professor of humanities at Columbia, Lilla is a longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books who…

November 1, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

A new Henry Kissinger documentary gilds the stinkweed

If you’d rather not know the worst thing Henry Kissinger ever did to America, then “American Experience: Kissinger” is the documentary for you. A Rip Van Winkle who slept through the last half-century and awoke on Monday, Oct. 27, to…

November 1, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Stop asking who’s “winning” the shutdown

As the federal government shutdown enters its fifth week, America’s democracy is crumbling. President Donald Trump and his allies are using the shutdown as a tool to speed the implosion along. The government shutdown and an impotent Congress have created a…

November 1, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

House inaction amid shutdown helps pave the way for Congress’ irrelevance

Many Americans will be voting on Election Day – or have already cast votes – in races for statewide office, local positions and on ballot initiatives with major implications for democracy. Congress is not on the ballot this November, but…

November 1, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0