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Conspiracist, potential mass shooter and favorite of Marjorie Taylor Greene
On Discord leaker Jack Teixeira.
No, red states are not becoming ‘laboratories of autocracy’
They already were. The key is containing them.
With their debt ceiling bill, the House Republicans reveal they have no reason to be serious about playing a dangerous game
This is not some sort of Svengalian victory for Kevin McCarthy.
Tucker Carlson and why selling GOP groupthink had to end
With so many people centered on the same lie featuring the same private firm, it’s hard to think of better conditions for striking back.
GOP hopes to flood labor market with the cheap labor of children
Rewriting child labor laws isn’t the half of it.
The oldest-ever president is running again? Good
Let’s not regret a lack of choice but celebrate a clarity of choice.
There’s no such thing as a competent authoritarian
DeSantis wouldn’t be better or worse than Trump.
Could the Supreme Court cover up its corruption by saving access to the abortion pill?
We should keep on keeping the democratic faith.
Facing embarrassingly weak test case, has SCOTUS’ rightwing supermajority lost its nerve?
The current bid to yank mifepristone off the market is legal hackery whose sponsors deserve points only for shrewd venue-shopping.
Think you understand Trump’s relationship with white evangelicals? Think again
Post-Roe, they’re still figuring out new ways of talking about old agreements over the proper role of women in American society.