Donald Trump

I’m not buying Adam Schiff’s bullshit. Neither should you

By John Stoehr / October 12, 2021 /

Why is the congressman taking advantage of ignorance?

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Merrick Garland thinks he’s being neutral in the face of Trump’s crimes. He’s wrong. He’s being complicit. Make him know it

By John Stoehr / October 8, 2021 /

We are not facing a “full-blown constitutional crisis.”

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The Republican campaign to rifle through the people’s ballots to sustain the Big Lie is a frontal assault on democracy

By Lindsay Beyerstein / October 4, 2021 /

We cannot afford to let it spread any further.

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The Eastman memo is another reason why we badly need election reform. It’s also reason why reform won’t be enough

By John Stoehr / September 22, 2021 /

New laws won’t stop people who hold themselves above the law.

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The Durham indictment isn’t about justice. It’s about sending a ‘stop snitching’ message

By Lindsay Beyerstein / September 21, 2021 /

Snitches might get indicted.

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Let the Haitians in, all of them

By Richard Sudan / September 20, 2021 /

The United States owes them that much.

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The GOP’s authoritarian voters have given up hope of taking over democracy. A new political rhetoric can keep it that way

By John Stoehr / September 16, 2021 /

The rhetoric of shut-the-fuck-up, part 2.

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Post-Trump America needs a new political vocabulary. Introducing the rhetoric of shut-the-fuck-up

By John Stoehr / September 15, 2021 /

Please forgive me my vulgarity.

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The civilian wing of the Republican Party has finally lost control of its paramilitary wing

By Lindsay Beyerstein / August 31, 2021 /

Roger Stone and Trump operatives like to think of themselves as being in control. A new Reuters report paints a very different picture.

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We owe it to Afghans to let as many in as possible, but let’s avoid arguments over ‘desirable’ and ‘undesirable’ immigrants 

By Mia Brett / August 23, 2021 /

People deserve refuge even if they didn’t help us.

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