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The cultivated naivete of the Washington press corps

By John Stoehr / June 20, 2024 /

We should talk about it.

In America, you can fight evil, but you can’t fight stupidity

By John Stoehr / June 5, 2024 /

For Republicans who believe this, there’s probably no argument, no set of values, no set of facts that anyone can use to change their minds.

Trump’s conviction forces him to tell lies even more conspicuous

By John Stoehr / May 31, 2024 /

Lots of people, maybe enough people, don’t want to be lied to.

A rape survivor defends a rapist

By Stephen Robinson / March 12, 2024 /

The GOP is a pro-rape party now, writes Stephen Robinson.

Britt’s SOTU response contained several lies and one truth

By Claire Bond Potter / March 12, 2024 /

Republican consultants are worried about the party’s extremist abortion policies, writes Claire Bond Potter.

The other ‘Great Replacement’

By Claire Bond Potter / February 20, 2024 /

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.

If he weren’t trying to be like Trump, DeSantis might be known as his most insightful critic

By John Stoehr / January 17, 2024 /

Maybe it takes a copycat to be so right about the frontrunner.

Kevin McCarthy caves and caves, then he caves some more

By John Stoehr / July 27, 2023 /

Like all abusers, his conference keeps moving the standard on him.

There’s no such thing as a competent authoritarian

By Noah Berlatsky / April 24, 2023 /

DeSantis wouldn’t be better or worse than Trump.

All they care about is defending traditional hierarchies

By Rod Graham / March 22, 2023 /

That’s the rightwing complaint about everything, writes Rod Graham.