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The only thing Mike Johnson is getting out of his relationship with Trump is humiliation
The longer this goes on, the better the Democrats look.
When people tell you that Biden is doing to Trump what Putin did to Navalny, they are telling you they don’t believe in anything
A democracy can’t afford to empower such cynicism.
Kellyanne Conway wants us to believe GOP has a deep bench
In discussing possible VP picks for Trump, she spins the fiction that the party has people ready for the national stage, writes Claire Bond Potter.
New York’s special shows the cost to GOP of saying the quiet part out loud about the border
The winner, a Democrat, said he cared about the problem. Voters believed him. More importantly, they didn’t believe the Republican.
Do we really need Jon Stewart’s political nihilism?
That joke isn’t funny anymore, writes Stephen Robinson.
Critics calling on Biden to drop out are not thinking it through
They say democracy is too important to take a chance on an old man. In fact, it’s too important to take a chance on someone else.
It’s crystal clear: SCOTUS is not going to disqualify Trump
For the Roberts Court, values, politics and consequences count for much more than text, history and precedent, writes Eric Segall.
To speak on your terms, free yourself from the press corps
What can you say about things that are morally distinct in a news media world in which moral distinctions don’t exist?
Biden’s righteous anger with an anti-moral press corps
The special counsel’s report didn’t have enough to indict him, only smear him, and reporters are going along with it.
Special counsel finds a way to turn Biden’s willingness to cooperate into a smear
The DC press corps is taking the emotionally charged impressions of a two-time Trump appointee at face value, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.