Lindsay Beyerstein

Lindsay Beyerstein covers legal affairs, health care and politics for the Editorial Board. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, she’s a judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Find her @beyerstein.

Death-threat squads harass voting administrators out of their jobs, clearing way for election theft. It’s a slow-motion coup

October 13, 2021 /

“They’re playing the long game.”

After one big failed coup, the GOP has regrouped to launch countless mini-insurrections

October 6, 2021 /

The right wing has cynically declared war on easy targets like teachers and nurses in the hopes they will quit out of fear or frustration.

The Republican campaign to rifle through the people’s ballots to sustain the Big Lie is a frontal assault on democracy

October 4, 2021 /

We cannot afford to let it spread any further.

The Durham indictment isn’t about justice. It’s about sending a ‘stop snitching’ message

September 21, 2021 /

Snitches might get indicted.

Look to California to see that the GOP has given up on elections

September 14, 2021 /

Trump is out of power, but the legacy of Trumpism lives on.

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

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. 

We can pull the plug on the lab leak theory

September 1, 2021 /

An all-out push by the entire US Intelligence Committee failed to uncover one iota of evidence.

The civilian wing of the Republican Party has finally lost control of its paramilitary wing

August 31, 2021 /

Roger Stone and Trump operatives like to think of themselves as being in control. A new Reuters report paints a very different picture.

The governor’s breakup message: It’s not me, it’s you

August 10, 2021 /

You see, Andrew Cuomo wasn’t preying on the troopers; he was thanking them. That’s just the kind of guy he is.

‘A hit man sent them.’ Police testify for the first day of House hearings on the January 6 insurrection

July 27, 2021 /

You couldn’t ask for a clearer mandate.