New Orleans      I warned you.  I’m watching the Game of Thrones reality show in Washington, DC, in the House of Representatives on full alert.  I had been honest, that if it played out as it looked to me in wild, cheap seat speculation, I was going to be all about “I told you …

            Pearl River      I’ll admit it.  I find the Republican anarchy in the House fascinating, not because I’m a chaos monkey, but because their antics now are case stories in political maneuvering and backroom knife fights.  Some of this wildness speaks to classic, almost universal organizing truths.  In short, what follows is my highly speculative …

            Toronto           It’s hard for most of us way down here on the ground to understand how less than a dozen hard right Republican members of the House of Representatives are able to shut down an entire government with millions of workers and basically flip-off their counterparts in the US Senate and hundreds of their …