“What do you call this?” the historian Tim Carey asked his followers in a tweet posted on Friday along with a photo taken of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, and Mann. A loaded question if there ever was one, it was not lost on me that I saw the…

In 2013, I stood where my hero Clement Attlee stood and where, before him, the nation’s hero — Winston Churchill — stood. I was on the floor of the House of Commons. The despatch boxes were right in front of me. Looking around, I took in the magnificence of this…

This piece was originally published on July 25, 2021 in my Substack newsletter. Click here to subscribe. This is a story about striking workers in Kansas. This is a story about the importance of unions. This is a story that got rejected by three different editors. This is a story…

Not all months are created equally. Some have 30 days. Some have 31. February — infuriatingly — only has 28 except when it has 29. …I don’t know either. The point is that the months of the year are wildly different. Some are hot. Some are cold. Some are wet…

“We’re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,” President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, speaking at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Republican officials, who have enacted a spate of voter suppression laws in dozens of states, are “not only targeting people of color, they’re…

This article originally appeared in “Sky’s the Limit,” my Substack newsletter I wanted to get this out for Pride Month, but unfortunately, I struggled to find a home for it and, when I did, breaking news overtook it. So, it was never published. In some ways, that works out, as…

Kyrsten Sinema is not giving up on the filibuster. “It’s no secret that I oppose eliminating the Senate’s 60-vote threshold,” the Senator from Arizona wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post. Her support for retaining the filibuster “is based on what is best for our democracy,” she goes on…

Joe Manchin’s announcement over the weekend that he would not support either ending the filibuster nor the For The People Act — Democrats’ sweeping voting rights bill — rocked the political world. “…[V]oting and election reform that is done in a partisan manner will all but ensure partisan divisions continue…

Last weekend, approximately 20 drunk and belligerent men tried to gain access to Fran’s House, an LGBT living community on the campus of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. …