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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.
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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.
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Ezra Klein’s plan for replacing Biden is 'West Wing’ fan fiction
Why are we even talking about this? writes Stephen Robinson.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Do we really need Jon Stewart’s political nihilism?
That joke isn’t funny anymore, writes Stephen Robinson.
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Critics calling on Biden to drop out are not thinking it through
They say democracy is too important to take a chance on an old man. In fact, it's too important to take a chance on someone else.
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It’s crystal clear: SCOTUS is not going to disqualify Trump
For the Roberts Court, values, politics and consequences count for much more than text, history and precedent, writes Eric Segall.