Alternative History Facts: Remembering Lt Col Donald Armstrong Trump
By: Patrick W. ZimmermanNot a fan of inconvenient truths? Then welcome to Alternative History Facts, where we highlight The Real StoriesTM that the fake news...More
Politics
Rules for the Resistance: A handy guide for overthrowing an autocrat
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Rise & Fall of Autocracy” The first rule of autocrat club: Don’t talk about beautiful chocolate...More
The first rule of autocrat club: Don’t talk about beautiful chocolate cake
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Rise & Fall of Autocracy” The first rule of autocrat club: Don’t talk about beautiful chocolate...More
A third party ticket to relevance: A House divided
This is post 1 of 3 in the series “Third Party road to relevance” A third party ticket to relevance: A House divided Are Republicans...More
20 reasons for hope after the first 100 days of the worst president ever
By: Richard Van HeertumThe Trump Presidency has been even worse than many of us could have ever imagined, with all efforts by the mainstream media...More
What kinds of terror and hate crimes does Trump denounce, and what does that say about the world he wants you to believe in?
By: Patrick W. ZimmermanThe Donald wants you to live in a world of eternal threat, where the Evil minions of Radial Islamic TerrorTM are lurking...More
The tweet rate monitor: Is there any rhythm to Trump’s twitter blasts?
This is post 8 of 18 in the series “Trump Watch” Presenting the Trump Watch (tick…tick…tick..) New Dataset – @realDonaldTrump Tweet corpus Just how oddball...More
The history of the future: Science fiction tells us a lot about our past (but stinks at predicting technological change)
By: Patrick W. ZimmermanFrom its inception, science fiction has exhibited a central tension, between optimists who saw technological change as a way to solve the...More
Trump Watch historical: How has @realDonaldTrump’s use of Twitter evolved since Election Day?
This is post 7 of 18 in the series “Trump Watch” Presenting the Trump Watch (tick…tick…tick..) New Dataset – @realDonaldTrump Tweet corpus Just how oddball...More
Evil Obama: Where does Trump’s alternate-reality version rank in the pantheon of supervillains?
By: Patrick W. ZimmermanMove over, Lex Luther! We’ve got a new criminal mastermind in town. Putin? Erdoğan? Grand Admiral Thrawn? As if! None of them...More