Cheryl Rofer

Ross Douthat does the public service of interviewing two people likely to be at the top of a Donald Trump foreign policy team, Robert O’Brien and Elbridge Colby. (gift link) O’Brien was Trump’s national security adviser in 2019 and 2020, and Colby served as a deputy assistant secretary of defense in 2017 and 2018. These […]

The election is at the top of our minds now, unsurprisinglly, but Joe Biden did something important on Friday. He apologized for the United States government's role in running Indian boarding schools.

I feel considerably better this morning about Kamala Harris's chances of becoming President, and all our chances of avoiding authoritarianism.

Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, published a “note” today in his newspaper. “The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media.” Ah yes Jeff. And why do you think that might be? Of course serious billionaire oligarchs are interested in, or perhaps prefer to be the purveyors of. Hard Truth. I have succeeded […]

I am grateful to Scott for his continuing posting of atrocities against women experiencing failed pregnancies. Often, I’ve thought “I should post that,” and Scott had published it already. Something that has come home to me more vividly than ever since Dobbs is that the availability of reproductive health measures is central to women’s freedom. […]

Tonight Kamala Harris will make the closing argument of her campaign. It will be on Washington's Ellipse, which is where Donald Trump egged on his January 6 insurrection. Thus Harris reclaims a Washington landmark for the people's government and freedom, much as she marched up to him at their debate and forced him to respect her offer of a handshake.

Pew surveyed over 6000 adult Americans about their views on masculinity in September. The survey covered traits people think are valued too much or too little in men these days; how acceptable they think certain behaviors are in men; and how they think men have fared relative to women in various aspects of life.

Bernie Sanders addresses concerns about Gaza and other issues in the election.

Donald Trump came to New Mexico today. He held a smallish rally at the Albuquerque airport. The City of Albuquerque wouldn't rent their convention center to him because he owes the city over $200,000 from an earlier rally. There was also an issue about parking for the audience to then be bussed to the airport.

Yes, Donald Trump will claim he won. BFD. We know this already. It's priced in. How many battalions does he have?