Charles P. Pierce

Of course they won't—but there's no stopping his campaign juggernaut once it gets going.

Science is showing us that it's never too late to question your starting assumptions.

China is exporting scams and disinformation around the world

A NYT round table brings together a crew that will need to fold space-time to create their desired political reality.

And this year promises an unprecedented level of chaos.

Some places in California may be about to find out.

The dark side to the dank strictures.

A finger just curled up on a monkey's paw out there somewhere.

"This is no bluff"—famously, a thing one says when one is definitely not bluffing.

He desperately wanted to be a Big Man, which led to (allegedly) puffed-up flimflam and inflated assets

And the media isn't helping with constant talk of 'historic' and 'unprecedented' events.

Meanwhile, the shebeen is quarantined.

The universe of Camp Runamuck loyalists is contracting into a singularity of pure vengeance.

The climate crisis we refuse to confront will also turbocharge future pandemics.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is the latest to fold to this ambulatory lump of triglycerides

After all, there might be something living there.

Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz's resignation letter was a great move and likely hopeless.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants...and babies who were in the way.

Trump's reptilian immigration czar is fighting a January 6 subpoena with about as much courage as you'd expect.

If you give poor people money, their lives will improve because they'll be less poor.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will represent those who keep alive the promise of equal justice under the law.

A religious historian breaks down the Orthodox Christian aspect to Putin's calculations.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia is attempting to take control of the nuclear wilderness—and all the dangers that lie within it.

"I would sooner lose my license, or even be prosecuted, than deny the oath I took"

He also went out of his way to link his case to the situation with the January 6 commission.

Another investigation into his conduct has hit the skids, this time in Manhattan

This is what many of our elected officials want to bring to this country.

Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana is also subject to a long-shot bid to get him tossed from the ballot.

The former First Family* was dealt a decisive blow in a New York courtroom on Thursday.

What Canadian law enforcement found at the U.S. border tells us something about the movement.

It's complicated and opaque, enabling Donald Trump to call it "worse than Watergate."

That’s all our revolution was about, too. We’ve lost sight of that, and largely abandoned the concept over here.