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The Supreme Court just turned us all into vigilante voters
The potential for democracy obliterating the rule of law.
Doom is a virus
It saps the will when you need it most, writes Rev. Daniel Schultz.
Supreme Court’s GOP justices open the door to dictatorship
They would allow Trump to run for president until he dies, no matter how many insurrections he incites, writes Claire Bond Potter.
On polls and panicking
Who has the better read on the electorate?
Mitch McConnell doesn’t deserve any compliments
The damage McConnell’s done is incalculable, writes Stephen Robinson.
IVF makes a mockery of anti-choice extremists
Warehouses of frozen embryos put a lie to their central dogma that a fertilized egg is a person, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
What’s the rightwing freakout over a dance video really about?
The viral Tik Tok reflects a war inside the Republican Party over how many rights to take away from women, writes Matthew Sheffield.
This is what happens when ‘pro-life Republicans’ play God
The legal and political disaster awaiting them in Alabama.
Are Trump-branded sneakers a new way to launder money?
The real gold in the golden kicks, writes Claire Bond Potter.