Gaius Publius

The Pete Buttigieg Memorial Wine Cave Club. Members shown celebrating their early freedom from Social Security taxes.by Thomas NeuburgerIt's February 20. Why are people with million-dollar salaries celebrating? Because as of yesterday, they stopped having to pay for Social Security. That's right.

Location of Esperanza Station on the northern tip of Antarcticaby Thomas NeuburgerThe climate news out of Antarctica isn't good. As Vice News put it on February 7, "Good Morning. It's 65 Degrees in Antarctica. That's warmer than Orlando today." Since then the news from the South Pole has gotten worse.

Click through to the source for the videoby Thomas NeuburgerThere are growing signs that the resistance to [Sanders'] campaign will be led by cable news anchors.—Alex Shepherd, The New Republic The "Resistance" has been almost clichéd to death these days, bludgeoned into mean

The latest final results from Iowa as of the February 9 (source, also here, though the Des Moines Register begs to differ).

by Thomas NeuburgerThe new show-your-work requirements for Iowa seem to have revealed that not every precinct follows the rules and many struggle with the math of calculating delegate equivalents, there has probably never been a clean caucus.

 (source)by Thomas NeuburgerThe Iowa caucuses are today, and the results will be known either tonight or tomorrow. Iowa has 41 pledged delegates available (along with eight superdelegates, who won't vote at the convention until after the first round).So let's take a quick look ahead.

Iowa's four congressional districts. Note Cedar Rapids in CD1, Iowa City (a major college town) in CD2, Des Moines in CD3 and Ames (the other large college town) in the otherwise heavily rural CD4.by Thomas NeuburgerMost people think, innocently enough, that the coming Democratic Party Iowa caucuses held in each of the state's voting precincts selects pledged delegates to the national convention.

by Thomas Neuburger"Where would you stick the knife in?" — 2020 Democratic Convention Rules Committee nominee John Podesta, referring to candidate Bernie Sanders in 2016DNC chair Tom Perez recently presented his nominations for the 2020 Democratic Convention standing committees.

by Thomas NeuburgerFor all the damage he’s inflicted on American democracy, for all the political corpses he’s left in his wake, Mitch McConnell has never betrayed an ounce of shame.—Robert Moser, Rolling StoneMitch McConnell is a unique individual in the modern political world.Most politicians are filled with a mix of fevered desires, flatt

Elizabeth Warren talking at SXSW about the now-famous private conversation with Bernie Sandersby Thomas Neuburger Much has been written about the Warren-Sanders-CNN confrontation at the most recent debate, both the conflict at the debate itself and hot-mic conversation afterward (excellent contextual rundown here). For the record, here's what was said at the debate: