Trump Denies Being at North Carolina Rally
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump attempted to further distance himself from a racist chant shouted at a North Carolina campaign rally earlier this week by denying that he had attended the rally. “I wasn’t there,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday. “If I had been there, you can be sure I…
The Pelosi-Versus-Squad Paradigm
After President Trump said that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies in the House, all women of color, should “go back” to where they came from, the conflict between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez’s “Squad” was suspended. But the underlying rift between the progressive insurgents and the establishment of the Democratic Party remains, on issues…
The Movement to Impeach Donald Trump Is Far from Over
On Wednesday afternoon, Representative Al Green, who since 2005 has represented Texas’s Ninth Congressional District, stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and read from a resolution to impeach Donald Trump. “Donald John Trump is unfit to be President,” Green said. “Unfit to represent the American values of decency and morality, respectability and…
The Trump Campaign Pitches Its Crypto-Majority Argument to Women
“We ask for the wisdom of God to be upon our President, upon our Vice-President, upon every person in the campaign—that you would supernaturally download strategies from Heaven, that you would give us the mind of Christ according to Philippians, Chapter Two, Verse Five.” So went the opening prayer from Paula White, Donald Trump’s personal…
Two Comedy Writers Take “Face/Off” to a New Level of Weirdness
On a recent Sunday afternoon, Cage in the Park, a theatre series created by Sebastian DiNatale and Zachary DiLanzo, staged a Shakespearean reënactment of the 1997 action film “Face/Off,” at the Grecian peristyle at the southern end of Prospect Park. DiNatale and DiLanzo, both of whom are staffers at “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,”…
Campbell McGrath Reads Czeslaw Milosz
Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn Campbell McGrath joins Kevin Young to discuss “Realism,” by Czeslaw Milosz, and his own poem “The Human Heart.” McGrath has published several poetry collections and received fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. His latest book is “Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected…
Trump, the Squad, and the “Standard Definition” of Racism
It’s useful, always, to consult the stylebook. Earlier this year, the Associated Press belatedly revised its entry on race, which now reads, “Do not use racially charged or similar terms as euphemisms for racist or racism when the latter terms are truly applicable.” The recommendation is a concession to clarity, not to passion or politics.…
Trump, Pelosi, and the Squad Are Fighting Over Who Belongs in Government
Who can govern? Every American election poses this question. Formally, the question is, who will represent the people best? But the underlying question is, invariably, who belongs in government? Can a Catholic be President? Can a black man? A white woman? A man with no government experience? A gay man? A philanderer? A man accused…