Joe Biden

We have now entered the ‘Hunger Games’-era of American history. Does Joe Manchin care?

By John Stoehr / December 20, 2021 /

Monique Judge: “This is some weird power play”

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Revelations by the House Select Committee risk drawing attention away from GOP legislators who aided and abetted a failed coup

By Lindsay Beyerstein / December 16, 2021 /

January 6 was one part of a coup attempt planned out in the open. Its procedural component was widely reported in the weeks beforehand.

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Why do the storytellers whitewash Fox even when Fox becomes the story?

By John Stoehr / December 15, 2021 /

Three Fox hosts contacted Mark Meadows during the 1/6 insurrection. Jeremy Littau thinks that should change how the press does news.

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Will the Democrats learn? When you think you’re winning against bullshit, you’re actually losing

By Matt Robison / December 15, 2021 /

On covid, the Republicans are swiftboating Biden.

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The president’s low approval is democracy working. Voters are holding him accountable

By Noah Berlatsky / December 14, 2021 /

The problem is a Republican Party that’s not promising to do more to fight the covid pandemic. It’s promising to do less.

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If last week’s carve-out to the filibuster rule can be done to raise the debt ceiling, it can be done to save democracy, too

By John Stoehr / December 13, 2021 /

Anoa Changa: the point of no return is fast approaching.

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Bob Dole’s death inspired nostalgia among liberals for a time in politics that never was

By John Stoehr / December 10, 2021 /

It’s sounds nice, but it’s not true.

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He was set to testify about a PowerPoint outlining step-by-step Trump’s failed coup. Then Mark Meadows chickened out

By Lindsay Beyerstein / December 9, 2021 /

He’s invoking privilege he doesn’t have.

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America’s future: less democracy nationally, more democracy locally, plus violence and blood

By John Stoehr / December 9, 2021 /

My interview with Sea Change Radio’s Alex Wise.

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The good news is we’re on the cusp of a new way of ordering the American polity. The bad news? We could fall short

By John Stoehr / December 8, 2021 /

Thomas Zimmer: Multiracial democracy will be expanded or aborted.

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