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Exposure of Kremlin lies won’t alter course of impeachment
The Republicans are picking up where Trump left off when he extorted Ukraine’s president, using Russian disinformation to smear Biden.
A convention fight is a pure pundit’s fantasy
It’s time to shelve the childish fantasies and focus on the task at hand, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
Ezra Klein’s plan for replacing Biden is ‘West Wing’ fan fiction
Why are we even talking about this? writes Stephen Robinson.
If Biden is risky for Democrats, Trump is far riskier for the GOP
Trump and the Republicans are one. If he goes down, they all go down.
The other ‘Great Replacement’
When the GOP embraced conspiracy theories, voter fraud fantasies, and class war, they replaced people who vote with an electorate that doesn’t always – or can’t always – vote, writes Claire Bond Potter.
The only thing Mike Johnson is getting out of his relationship with Trump is humiliation
The longer this goes on, the better the Democrats look.
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When people tell you that Biden is doing to Trump what Putin did to Navalny, they are telling you they don’t believe in anything
A democracy can’t afford to empower such cynicism.
Kellyanne Conway wants us to believe GOP has a deep bench
In discussing possible VP picks for Trump, she spins the fiction that the party has people ready for the national stage, writes Claire Bond Potter.
New York’s special shows the cost to GOP of saying the quiet part out loud about the border
The winner, a Democrat, said he cared about the problem. Voters believed him. More importantly, they didn’t believe the Republican.