This is politics in plain English for normal people and the common good.
Subscribe to the free list
Latest Articles
Police killed yet another Black man, yet the US claims the right to speak on the rule of law
Is Jayland Walker’s death a crime against humanity?
Federal law requires some hospitals to give emergency care, including abortions
Republicans are fighting it in court.
There’s no way Biden would use the term ‘semi-fascist’ if he did not believe that most Americans are behind the Democrats
He doesn’t risk alienating voters. He risks missing an opportunity.
Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman meets hate with humor
Can he turn politics around?
Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, is dead
The former Soviet premier became a sort of hero in the west. But he became that hero precisely because he was a massive failure.
Why the Republicans hate Biden’s college debt plan
It threatens the social hierarchy and established order.
Team Trump keeps admitting to an ongoing crime
His boasts that he owns the documents are undercutting his lawyers’ attempts to portray a brazen theft as an accident.
If the Congress is unchanged by the midterms, it will signal the return of an old norm
In the 20th century, six midterms flipped the Congress.
Maybe Donald Trump’s Big Lie is, well, um, good for democracy?
Early signs of hardcore supporters losing hope.
Who counts as white?
Why are folks in the Republican Party so quick to call their fellow Americans, and their opposing values and ideas, “anti-American?”