politicians

  • Dispatches from the Swamp: To the Bureaucrats, with Love

    Dispatches from the Swamp: To the Bureaucrats, with Love

    About 173,000 people work for federal agencies in this Washington DC, and let’s be absolutely clear from the get-go: the mood among them is grim.

  • Oops, I’m Sorry

    Oops, I’m Sorry

    Thank you all for coming here today. It is with a heavy heart that I admit to my colleagues, to my constituents, and to the public, that I did indeed do that thing I was accused of doing. Boy did…

  • The Slut-Shaming of Anthony Weiner

    What would it look like to slut shame a middle-aged, heterosexual man?

  • Politics Sunday

    Politicians and their favorite books. Shocker: American Apparel’s models are not, in fact, random people they picked up off the street. “Monks with Guns” The governor of the Russian republic of Kalmykia was abducted by aliens the other day. “A tall…