Larry Kramer

Larry Kramer The late playwright and AIDS activist saw enemies everywhere—and he wasn’t wrong about that  

Mel Boozer Said What Pete Buttigieg Can’t

Mel Boozer Said What Pete Buttigieg Can’t Before Pete Buttigieg, Mel Boozer compared the civil-rights struggle to the fight for gay and lesbian rights.  

The Truth About George Soros

The Truth About George Soros Understanding the Jewish billionaire—who is neither the villain of right-wing caricature, nor the angel of left-wing hagiography

Trump’s Debt to Ron Paul’s Paranoid Style

Trump’s Debt to Ron Paul’s Paranoid Style Ron Paul’s paleolibertarianism is, in many ways, a forerunner of today’s alt-right, and Paul himself has proven to be something of a gateway drug to even more extreme political movements.

The Brit Grifters and the Designated American Suckers

The Brit Grifters and the Designated American Suckers When Britain sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us

A Crank Theory of Seymour Hersh Over the weekend Seymour Hersh published his latest interminably long investigative bombshell—and it’s a doozy. The 2011 killing of Osama Bin Laden by U.S. special operations forces, Hersh alleges, was an elaborately produced bit of national security theater. Contrary to claims by Obama administration officials, senior members of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence were fully aware of...

Je Suis Pamela Geller? Since Pamela Geller likes to fashion herself a heroine of the Jewish people, let me use a Yiddish word to describe her: shanda. Shanda means “shame,” and it’s usually used to describe a person or behavior that shames or embarrasses the Jewish community. It is hard to think of an American Jewish public figure of...