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The duplicity of ‘parents’ rights’

By John Stoehr / October 4, 2022 /

The problem for Republicans is when democracy empowers kids.

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Trust me, Ginni Thomas says. Democracy demands more

By John Stoehr / October 3, 2022 /

The truth is in plain sight.

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Judge Cannon’s sideshow

By Lindsay Beyerstein / September 30, 2022 /

The criminal investigation into the classified documents is continuing.

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The problem isn’t that DeSantis is politicizing immigration. It’s that he’s depoliticizing it

By John Stoehr / September 26, 2022 /

Politics is how normal people can change the world.

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Ken Starr, janus-faced moral hack, is finally dead

By Erik Loomis / September 14, 2022 /

In short, Starr’s feelings about sexual crime depended entirely on whether he liked the person who committed it. 

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David Brooks and the decay of white boomer politics

By John Stoehr / September 9, 2022 /

The stand-in for a fading political order is bewildered by politics, a sign of the GOP’s half-century dominance may be coming to an end.

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Team Trump keeps admitting to an ongoing crime

By Lindsay Beyerstein / August 30, 2022 /

His boasts that he owns the documents are undercutting his lawyers’ attempts to portray a brazen theft as an accident. 

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Allen Weisselberg can’t plead the Fifth anymore

By Lindsay Beyerstein / August 22, 2022 /

He used to protect Donald Trump that way. But no more.

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Someone like Trump pleading the Fifth is funny, but the right against self-incrimination is no laughing matter

By Mia Brett / August 15, 2022 /

It’s just too perfect considering that Trump said in 2016 that, “if you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” 

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Breonna Taylor and how a civil rights law from 1866 could pave the way to police accountability and federal intervention

By Mia Brett / August 11, 2022 /

Is the Justice Department re-embracing its original mandate?

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