Jim Newell

When Sen. Jim DeMint, the upper chamber’s godfather of Tea Party nihilism, abruptly announced his retirement from his lawmaking career and his plans to take over as president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, the consensus in Washington was that this was a ...

Last night, the state of Oklahoma tried to murder someone. They eventually succeeded (phew?), but only after torturing him for a while. To the more bloodlusty among us, this was an apt way to send a particularly nasty fellow packing. For those who don’t think the state should ...

It’s 2014, and yet our news cycle seems to be currently dominated by a pair of unreconstructed racists. We’ll get to them in just a second. What their rhetoric most reminds us of, though, is a Racist In The News from the distant past: 2013. Let’s travel back in time to ...

What an exciting weekend this shall be for freedom-loving Americans: it’s the annual NRA convention! And now that little PR flaps like “lots of kids getting shot in an elementary school” are well in the rearview, our beloved gun manufacturers trade association can pivot to ...

Democrat billionaires are always looking for an excuse to justify their outsized political spending. Aren’t liberals supposed to be against the wealthy few pouring great gobs of money into the political system? How can they justify railing against this state of affairs while ...

The White House recently invited a bunch of rich kids over to talk about how they should spend their fortunes. Oh yes, they did! The event was closed to the media, of course. The rich, whether old or young, don’t tend to like their names disclosed to the press, and the White ...

On Thursday afternoon, a thirty-four-year-old woman announced that she and her husband were expecting their first child. Which is great news for them. But did you also know that this is the most significant political story of the century, dramatically affecting the 2016 United ...

Most things in American politics make much more sense when you remember all the jackasses you met in college. Think back to sophomore year, when frat officials were spreading the word of a “pimps and hoes” party at the chapter lodge that weekend, where a dress code ...