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Kennedy’s fate is tied to Trump’s
Voters have entered a new stage in which they are remembering what the country was like the last time a demagogue was president.
RFK Jr is the chaos factor
An anti-system candidate in an anti-system era, writes Lee Drutman.
Third parties are a scam
They can’t win, but they can sap your will to make the world better.
How a little girl named Virginia promotes Christian nationalism
Promoting white supremacy on the down-low, writes Claire Potter.
The Republicans’ either/or trap
They ask us to choose God or trans people. Don’t fall for it.
Trump world’s Easter parade of hate
How evangelical, writes Stephen Robinson.
The important but overlooked detail in Trump’s bible sales pitch
It was a signal to believers of “the one true religion.”
More Republicans are literally demonizing opponents
We laugh about the Satanic Panic, but we’re living through something much worse, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
Blaming a bridge collapse on ‘DEI’ is part of a pattern of malice
That’s what you need to know.
The ballad of Buckley’s blowhard
Holy Joe Lieberman has died, writes Erik Loomis.