Jeffrey Sachs learns he is Russia’s useful idiot

November 05, 2025

Jeffrey Sachs learns he is Russia’s useful idiot

Last weekend, Sen. Carlo Calenda of the Italian Republic cut off American academic Jeffrey Sachs mid-sentence. “You’re lying,” Calenda said flatly. Sachs looked extremely offended. The clip went viral because Calenda refused to treat Sachs’s sophisticated falsehoods as credible arguments. Sachs is a professor at Columbia University. In the early 1990s, he advised Russia during its transition […]

Reader’s Digest list of best fantasy novels omits JK Rowling’s Harry Potter

For J.K. Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter franchise, the people in the publishing world who compile best-of lists may as well be dementors. Reader’s Digest recently published a list of the 36 Best Fantasy Book Series. Rowling’s Harry Potter series was not on the list. Here is Chicago librarian Rachel Strolle’s, who compiled the list, reason […]

‘Thwarting Trump’: Virginia voters swing the pendulum back

McLEAN, Virginia — “Thwarting Trump as much as possible. In a big, big way. So I’m normally Republican, but I’m voting Democrat.” Linda, a Catholic woman in her 70s, was clear that she didn’t support Abigail Spanberger, Jay Jones, or the Virginia Democrats in general. In fact, she was totally opposed to the transgender ideology […]

Democratic shutdown is a political winner in Virginia

McLEAN, VA — Greenberries, the independent coffee shop in this tony suburb of Washington, D.C., is bustling at 10 a.m. on Election Day 2025. One reason: the federal government shutdown, currently on Day 35, has left many government workers furloughed, and thus with nowhere else to be. The 2025 shutdown has avoided media attention, perhaps […]

Vance’s silence on the Heritage-Fuentes fiasco hands 2028 rivals an opening

Everyone from the neocons to the NatCons is waiting for Vice President JD Vance to weigh in on the intraparty civil war that broke out last week. Tucker Carlson‘s cozy sit-down with Hitler fanboy Nick Fuentes, in which Fuentes ranted about “organized Jewry,” praised Stalin, and called for Jews to “get the f*** out of […]

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A House of Dynamite gets a lot wrong. A lot

Spoiler warning. A House of Dynamite? Try a House of Dolts. Noah Oppenheim, writer of Netflix‘s hit new movie A House of Dynamite, told MSNBC that “What we show in the movie is accurate.” His semi-namesake notwithstanding, Oppenheim is incorrect. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, A House of Dynamite sees the president, White House staff, FEMA, […]

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