vaccines

We do not have a public health crisis. We have a crisis of law and order. No one is talking about it

By John Stoehr / September 14, 2021 /

Let’s not mince words about “freedoms.”

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Why should we trust GOP leaders and voters who reliably demonstrate their lawlessness?

By John Stoehr / September 13, 2021 /

They say they’ll quit en masse. They won’t. They say they won’t do what they’re told. They will. They will do what they’re told, then lie about it.

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With a mandate affecting 100 million workers, Biden becomes a good ‘law and order’ president

By John Stoehr / September 10, 2021 /

Putting an end to the lawlessness.

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For members of Team Horse Paste, the fear is crossing the line from ‘bold independent thinker’ to ‘utter crackpot’

By Lindsay Beyerstein / September 8, 2021 /

Grifters played on people’s hopes for a quick covid fix and their fear of vaccines, and now their fans are paying the price. 

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Lawlessness is a feature of the Republican Party, not a bug

By John Stoehr / September 3, 2021 /

The five most conservative justices, and their allies in state legislatures, have devised a model for using a procedure called the “shadow docket” to weaponize lawlessness against court precedents they don’t like.

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Will GOP voters go to war with corporations over new vaccine mandates? That would require personal sacrifice, though

By John Stoehr / August 26, 2021 /

They’ll obey, like good authoritarians.

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The battle over race is the cancer afflicting American civic health

By Rev. Daniel Schultz / August 17, 2021 /

Everything in politics has come to revolve around the question of whether the society should be governed b a white Christian minority.

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The least vaccinated religious group is also the most likely to believe in conspiracy theories

By Chrissy Stroop / August 10, 2021 /

White evangelical apologists blame the young and the secular, though.

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Anti-vaxxers are covering up their bad choices with ‘freedom of choice.’ Don’t let them

By John Stoehr / August 10, 2021 /

They discredit themselves when they cite “reasons” for refusing to get vaccinated. Yet we keep on trusting them. That’s dangerous.

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Prepare for a permanent pandemic

By John Stoehr / August 10, 2020 /

Abnormal politics means no return to normal.

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