Renzo DowneyMarch 12, 2020
6min479
The House Speaker, first elected in 2011, terms out this year.
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Renzo DowneyMarch 12, 2020
Julie DelegalAugust 17, 20157min236
As former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush abandons his Paleolithic diet by eating a fried Snickers bar in Iowa, feminists everywhere wish he’d abandon his stone-age ideology, too. Bush wants to “publicly shame” mothers who give birth out of wedlock, arguing that the lack of stigma is what causes illegitimate births. With apologies to Sam Cooke, […]
Daniel TilsonFebruary 5, 20156min325
Jeb Bush stepped through the public-policy looking glass this week, sharing his inside-out “new vision” for America, where undeniable facts slip through the cracks and fall harmlessly by the wayside of his 2016 presidential ambition. Posing as some sort of newfangled conservative populist, Bush stepped up to the podium to address the Detroit Economic Club […]
Daniel TilsonMay 5, 20146min199
Call me a defiant “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” parent of a Florida public school student. And I’m looking for a few — a few million — good men and women to join me in battle. We’re decades into a war waged by shadowy business interests and religious […]
Darryl PaulsonNovember 18, 20137min207
First of a four-part series on political humor For 35 years, I told incoming political science students that politics comes from the ancient Greek word “poly” meaning “many” and “tics” meaning “ugly bloodsucking parasites.” For the first 20 years, the students would laugh. For the last 15 years, students would busily write the definition in […]