As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.'… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
You know, what genuinely makes me uneasy with the way things are going are not - is not really that Trump is going to… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
