There are some things the average American just doesn’t know. The name of their local state senator, for example. Or their Netflix password. Or which faceless conglomerate owns their local TV station.

We begin with the casual cruelty of Trump’s tour today of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention camp in the Florida everglades where he joked “we’re going to teach them how to run ...

A generation ago, when Bill Clinton wanted to prove to Middle America that he wasn’t a cartoon leftist, he publicly bashed a previously obscure Black woman hip-hop artist named Sista Souljah. Last ...