Charles Pierce

The Band’s legend gave this country’s truest history a voice that we could all hear over the din of the times.

The Marathon  Grantland

It was a day of sheltering in place. It was a day in which the essential geography of my life turned into a place of dark corners and of rustling in the underbrush. And it ended with cheers.

(In no particular order.)

The Wisconsin Idea was a manifestation of making a self-governing political commonwealth that had its beginnings with the Mayflower Compact.

The Wisconsin governor’s budget shows just how petty and small-minded he can be.

He ran a great campaign, but the truth that he represents is the unfinished history of America

Bernie Sanders is forced from the stage in Seattle by a Black Lives Matter protest and a gunfight breaks out in Ferguson. Shouldn’t some of these protests be directed at politicians who actually oppose the cause as well?

The seething racial resentment of the Obama era is of an altogether different kind.

You already know what they are.

And charter schools are not working.

Review by Robert R. Thomas Reading a book by its cover is dicey business, but a cover can be enticing, both the graphic design and the title and typography. Such was the case with Charles P. Pierce…

The Democratic Party loves its retreads, even if retreads don’t win.

The Democratic frontrunner’s career has spanned the party’s run to the center. Will he follow the new energy on its left flank?

Almost half of the country looked at the way Donald Trump has functioned as president since 2017 and said, definitively, that they wanted four more years of it. We are who he thinks we are—a huge proportion of us, anyway.

And the Senate Minority Leader did it live on the radio.

From the Freedom Summer to the Algebra Project, his was a truly American story.

And why didn’t we listen to anyone who’d already tried to invade and occupy Afghanistan?

The judge, Bruce Schroeder, has decreed the term “victim” is loaded, but “rioters,” “looters,” and “arsonists” are not.

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