Jaime Fuller

After months and months of revelations spurred by Edward Snowden’s files from the National Security Agency-including one yesterday about the 200 million text messages that the NSA collects every day-Obama took the podium today to unveil a massive rework of our country’s surveillance systems. As of last night, the president was still unsure of how […]

Bill Delahunt, Dick Durbin’s roommate: “He will kill them with his bare hands.” George Miller, Chuck Schumer’s roommate: “French poets lived better than Schumer was living.” John Tyson, Al Gore’s roommate: “I always knew he’d be President. He does well in an environment where there is a lot of pressure.” Al Gore, Tommy Lee Jones […]

The New York Times editorial board: “He said Tuesday that New Jersey’s citizens ‘deserve better.’ He is certainly right about that.” George Packer: “I was there in Tampa in August, 2012, for Governor Chris Christie’s keynote address at the Republican National Convention, and from the first line I knew this guy was trouble.” Katha Pollitt: […]

Although we are less than two weeks into 2014, the scandal that will dominate the rest of the year, nay the century, is obvious. What in hell inspired Bill de Blasio to eat pizza, that cheesy communion wafer with which New Yorkers worship their city, with a fork? As terrifying as this incident was, it […]

Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for National Labor Relations Board v. Canning. The case, which kicks off the high court’s big year of big cases has the potential to change the whole balance of power between the executive and legislative branches on recess appointments. The most recent iteration of President v. Congress […]

“Unless the grim chain [of unemployment and lack of education] can be broken, a second generation coming of age in Appalachia will fall into the same dismal life-a life that protects them from starvation but deprives them of self-respect and hope.” So wrote LIFE Magazine in 1964, as the War on Poverty was declared and […]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a politician in possession of bad fortunes must be in want of a Sister Souljah moment. sister souljah moment (n): “The public repudiation of an extremist person or statement perceived to have some association with a politician or his party.” “Bill Clinton invented the Sister Souljah moment. Is […]

The George Washington Bridge (because the reason for its traffic jams can be summed up as “it’s in New Jersey”) The Bridge to Nowhere (because it suffered from a heady cocktail of pork, Palin, and populationlessness) Bridge to Nowhere, a 1986 New Zealand film (because it features a psychotic cattle rancher and teenagers in very […]