Some argue for scrapping the Electoral College. But would a more proportional allocation of electoral votes work just as well?

We here at Tropics of Meta–and our sister podcast Doomed to Repeat–have been thinking about Russia for a […]

Many years ago, I was teaching high school in Gastonia, North Carolina. The senseless, world-destroying catastrophe of the […]

Trump is different. Wow—a really big breakthrough discovery, huh? Maybe it is. Some contributors to this discussion seem determined […]

Is Trump sui generis? The culmination of forty years of oblique race-baiting in the GOP? A reality television […]

I remember almost ten years ago, the normally sagacious Economist commented on the looming 2008 race.  “The smart […]

Given Donald Trump’s ongoing meltdown, all of this may be moot. But even a catastrophically failed presidential campaign […]

Dorothy Parker is said to have commented, “What Fresh Hell is this?” any time someone came to her […]