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Why is anti-vaccination emerging as a distinctly right-wing phenomenon across the globe?
The next time the GOP attempts a coup d'état, it won't be loud. It will be quiet. It will be legal
The Harvey Weinstein of politics
Is the era of NIMBYism giving way to a new era of YIMBYism? Data suggests big changes ahead
Performative masculinity is killing us
Here's why a vaccine mandate would convince authoritarian holdouts to get the shot voluntarily
We conquered the moon, the genome and the microchip. We can't get people vaccinated?
Simone Biles just needed to rest
Everyone's already subsidizing cars. How about we subsidize more and better public transit instead?
For all its sophistication, the Washington press corps exhibits a startling degree of naivete.
Today, the Editorial Board turns 3!
Everyone presumes a backlash is coming for the Democrats. The electorate has changed, though
For women shut out of the criminal system, civil litigation is a powerful tool for accountability
On Cuba, Biden must keep his promise
Do we want to be the kind of people who turn our backs on vaccine resistors and say 'Let 'em die'?
The Republicans have made being an American a partisan issue. There are now two clear sides
'Dialogue' won't save America but minor league baseball games and other group activities will
The country is failing to face the rage of Donald Trump's supporters. The result is mass death
The great mystery of Black voters isn't great or mysterious when you see Black voters as people
Who are the unvaccinated and how can we change their minds before it's too late?
What Merle Haggard can teach liberals
Laws aiming to counter impact of 'The 1619 Project' miss chance to tell a positive story
Censorship is now so broadly defined as to mean anyone disagreeing with me is censoring me
The Texas AG takes his revenge
Here's what I hope liberals like Michelle Goldberg understand about the American authoritarian mind
Vaccinations, like government, are not the opposite of freedom. They are a means toward achieving it
How do we solve a problem like 'vaccine skeptics'? Stop respecting their excuses for bad behavior
Things are going to change now that normal people can really feel the government being on their side
Texas creates a market for abortion vigilantism
No, there's nothing 'demagogic and dangerous' about a president taking the side of democracy
The Democrats say ranked choice voting is fairer. What they don't say is it helps beat Republicans
For white evangelical Protestants, the degradation of democracy is not regrettable. It's desirable
Facts about the covid vaccinations are totally political, because all facts are totally political
No, white evangelicals are not in rapid decline
We need more housing. We need more housing. We need more housing. We need more housing
Donny Deutsch's gothic contempt for work
The reporter who broke the news about Nikole Hannah-Jones tells the rest of the story
The World Anti-Doping Agency veered from its lane into the racist history of cannabis prohibition
A condo isn't the only thing collapsing in sunny Florida. So are decades of conservative politics
Color-consciousness, not colorblindness
The unsung co-author of the Declaration of Independence who did not own slaves
The authoritarian right of the United States has adopted the political discourse of monarchy
The Republicans are hoping a white backlash will deliver victory in 2022. It's not working so far
Bill Cosby spent more time in jail than 97 percent of rapists who never spend a day behind bars
The will of the American people is becoming less important than the will of a Republican high court
Why is it so hard to believe bats started covid?
That the GOP distorts 'wokeness' isn't surprising. What's surprising is when legitimate critics do
Our politics should revive the old democratic contempt for this country's wannabe aristocrats
Does being a billionaire mean being a liar?
Alabama district attorney aims to prosecute a woman for taking prescribed drug while pregnant
Republican-controlled state governments are in the early stages of forming their own thought police
Black Americans and Americans of color have limited space in George Packer's 'Four Americas'
The 'Tea Party' is long dead, but a new fake 'protest movement' is in the making. See Loudoun County
Joe Biden has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to unite the working class in a global race against China
Conservative Democrats keep telling stories about Republicans that Republicans keep blowing up
Biden and Harris are wrong on the border
Meritocracy is the myth that binds us
No, the Republicans aren't hypocrites
Trump transcended class divisions between white people. GOP governors are inflaming them
The 21st-century 'water wars' are here
Reasons for hard political hope
What does a democratic society do with people who'd rather die than be wrong about democracy?
Yale Law's famed tiger mother is guilty of many things, but sexual harassment isn't one of them
At the heart of 'the culture war'? Lies
No, the filibuster does not protect the Democratic Party. It creates the gridlock that weakens it
'Giuliani tape' is reminder the Republicans would conspire with foreign leaders to defeat Democrats
When treason is profitable, it's legitimate
Debates over crime often omit domestic violence. Is that because most of the victims are women?
Saying he'll be 'reinstated' is no more irrational than anything Donald Trump said over four years
Is there anything, anything at all, the Republicans believe in other than consolidating their power?
How much juice do the Republicans think is left in the Trump squeeze? Because, that's all they got
Asking the American people to pay attention to Donald Trump again is inviting political backlash
The press corps' focus on the 'pedo cabal' obscures the core of QAnon’s ideology
Canada has designated the Proud Boys a domestic terror group. Why hasn't the US?
What we're talking about when we talk about democracy isn't just voting. It's equality
There is no causal link—none—between 'defund the police' and the rise of murder rates nationally
No, it's not shocking that QAnon believers long for a military coup. For them, this is the End Times
Most shooting massacres are domestic violence incidents occurring in the home and out of sight
What do the January 6 commission, covid deaths and gun massacres have in common? God's chosen
Doing more of what got Trump beaten in the election isn't working out well for Republicans
The Republicans Party's unrelenting onslaught of bullshit is forcing Republicans to leave the party
Carl Schmitt, leading exponent of Nazi political thought, would feel at home in today's GOP
The simplest way to reform SCOTUS may be for Biden to refuse to enforce its politicized rulings
Nearly everyone missed Chuck Schumer implying this week that the filibuster's death is coming
South Carolina went 10 years without an execution. There's no good reason for firing squads now
Republican governors believe the working poor must be forced back to work. They are wrong
There are two ways of reading Joe Manchin's new voting-rights proposal. That's probably by design
At least four justices want to overturn Roe
Trump's 'big lie' is actually the GOP's 'long lie'
There's just one reason to oppose a bipartisan commission to investigate the 1/6 insurgency
For the GOP, terrorism is an option
The pandemic expanded access to the abortion pill. Now anti-choice states are racing to catch up
A political party can’t accomplish anything when it's 100 percent focused on stopping everything
The patriots among us are getting woke
Justice Breyer, will you please retire now please?
How do we know Trump's insurrection hasn't stopped? Because the GOP can't stop lying.
A new study involving 5,089 participants finds that anti-racism does not hurt support for Dem policy
By embracing the Big Lie, the Republicans risk injuring swing voters in the coming midterms
Why it's legal in 19 states to physically assault kids
Nikki Haley's illustration of white fragility
The memory-holing of Trump's putsch
The very rich are overruling democratic progress. That should renew the old American contempt
White supremacy is about systems, not intentions. Joe Biden seems to understand the difference
Wokeness is good. It always has been
Liz Cheney is betting 'the former guy' won't be the GOP's kingmaker, or king, for very much longer
The stink of treason clings to the GOP
Is America a racist country? It's not a statement of fact so much as an assertion of public morality
Fighting vaccines is fighting reasonableness. The Republicans are pretending they don't know that
Glenn Grothman is very bad, or very good, at explaining why the GOP opposes DC statehood
Vaccines are the welfare state's crowning achievement. Naturally, the right hates them
Last night's speech made clear Joe Biden is the most republican president in half a century
Intellectual conservatives seem to be redefining conservatism for make-believe Republicans
See through the GOP's lies to the conscious authoritarian intent to injure the republic
Justice Brett Kavanaugh shows that without democracy conservatism turns into barbarism
America’s demographic cake is baked
George Floyd’s Black body was on trial
David Brooks is maddening but he has an important role to play in moving the needle of progress
There was a brief time when civil courts could force cops to pay damages. Then SCOTUS stepped in
The Chauvin verdict isn't a turning point in equal justice. But it does suggest a new political norm
Maxine Waters understands why violence from an armed-agent of the state is existential
What Derek Chauvin's conviction in the murder of George Floyd tells us about liberal patriotism
Capitol cop Brian Sicknick died of natural causes, but don't kid yourself. The insurgency killed him
Odds are in favor of Chauvin's acquittal
ICE and the Border Patrol consume $20 billion a year, but have not made us safer. Just the opposite
The 'migration crisis' is a complete fiction
The market is becoming less useful to Republicans. The long marriage of convenience is over
America does not have to wait for the next insurgency. We’re still living in the first one
The history that went into killing Adam Toledo
Q is exposed. Will he face consequences?
Pro-life politics isn't as moral as you think
There will be no justice as long as people refuse to see the anti-Black racism behind the injustice
Militarized police should not be seen as normal and, therefore, acceptable parts of democratic life
Better to be popular than bipartisan
The problem isn’t that judges are too liberal or too conservative. It’s that judges are too powerful
Maybe we should take cops' guns away
White Americans feared they'd one day become victims of the monstrous capitalism they built
A voting law doesn't have to mention race to disenfranchise voters according to race
What North Carolina's newest anti-trans bill says about the lopsided alliance pushing for it
Senior Trump administration officials sabotaged public understanding of the covid. Drag 'em
Will the big business wing of the Republican Party stop the GOP's retreat from the national stage?
Witnesses to Floyd's death seem to feel more guilt than does the man charged with his murder
By standing for democracy, corporations are making it look like the Republicans stand against it
Why did Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson call an anti-trans bill 'indefensible' before vetoing it?
No, Democrats would not be conservative in Europe
Don't dismiss McConnell's 'warning' to corporations
The politics of 'white' Latinx voters
No, Dems are not trying to cut taxes on the rich
'Vaccine passports,' or something like them, are a common feature in American history
Too many non-religious liberals are magnifying the preferred worldview of religious zealots
Joe Biden will never look like a radical
My Black conservative senator needs to stand up to the voter suppression efforts of his party
Facing a fascist GOP, a big business lobby finds that liberals are more trustworthy
Are the Republicans really going to say no to $4 trillion in public investment? Yeah, probably
Glenn Greenwald appears to believe there's a constitutional right to PayPal. That's weird
For Republicans in Georgia, the problem was never election insecurity. It was the voters themselves
Biden's revolution is not being televised
Yes, the founders favored gun control
Dems run most American cities but won't take control of their out-of-control police. Why?
What Elizabeth Bruenig gets wrong about American Rescue Plan and why that's important to women
The desire for martial order behind the story of Kamala Harris 'failing' to salute the military
On immigration, Biden must go on offense
We must concede that by tolerating shooting massacres, we are choosing not to be free
'Border crisis' as Republican advantage may be conventional wisdom proven wrong this time
The history you did not know behind the push to make the District of Columbia a new state
The Republican Party seems willing to absorb as many legislative losses as possible. Why?
Massacres are what happen when a republic solves its problems by militarizing itself
Liberals, leftists are united in believing in government. Everything else is negotiable
Chuck Todd and the anti-moral press
Why is the president building bridges to the left, instead of the right? Because he must
Chauvin's attorney is back on his bullshit
Atlanta shooter’s claims—'sex addiction,' eliminating 'temptation,' Christian morality—do not matter
'Cultural left' has gone mainstream
Ignore centrist pundits puling over leftists
Actually, McConnell has always been bad at his job, and nuking the filibuster will prove it
There's a growing body of evidence showing the Republican Party has a paramilitary wing
Why does the right insist Biden is senile?
For the child-migrant crisis on the border, the Republicans offer no solutions. That's the point
The old 'radical' is the new 'boring'
Joe Biden: The government is us
No 'Hyde' in American Rescue Act. That's a BFD
We are entering a period of political stability in which active liberal governance feels 'boring'
The GOP's push to restore Jim Crow
Picking up where the Great Society left off
When the chips are down, you can count on the Democrats to come through. The GOP? Nah
This Democratic Party is the one progressives wanted. Will they recognize their success?
American Rescue Act is the BFD that we've been waiting for but that everyone misunderstands
Why right-wing fetishes are never benign
Focusing so much on $1,400 is a mistake
Using the n-word did not end Donald McNeil's storied career at the Times. His incuriosity did
GOP radicalization won't stop on its own
The Democrats have run out of fucks
Actually, conservative Senate Democrats are doing exactly what they are supposed to. Playing ball
Republicans know their new 'culture war' isn't fooling anyone, much less Republicans
The Democrats are not going to stand with Cuomo the way the Republicans still stand with Trump
Raise hell to keep from going to hell
The GOP's special Anti-Choice Math
Violence explains 'The Golden Trump'
The whole truth about 'cancel culture'
For Biden, 'democracy promotion' starts at home
The truth about the minimum wage
The gender politics of public tears
Does Biden have a Joe Manchin problem?
The fundamental and winning difference between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ted Cruz
When the Golden Rule is used to silence dissent and protect the politically powerful
Ted Cruz is afraid but not afraid enough
What is the link between Trumpland, QAnon, evangelical culture and child-sex predators? 4chan
Death is Limbaugh's only accountability
McConnell and Trump are not breaking up
The reason Biden must reopen schools
Stop calling the GOP 'conservative'
Fascists show that being American does not automatically mean believing in democracy
Will the losers write the history of Donald Trump's second impeachment acquittal?
No, the Democrats did not botch anything
Acquitting Trump would prove the Republicans refuse to be part of our democratic community
Don't let the 'Q shaman' and his antics trivialize the importance of protecting religious freedoms
How do you beat a 'pretty damning' case?
Should a South Carolina liberal support a Trump Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump?
Don't believe the Republicans. The fix is in
Is impeachment about 'regime change'?
This is what the Senate Republicans' impeachment lies reveal about them
The Senate's barbarous Republicans
When it came to immigration, legal and illegal, Donald Trump was his own worst enemy
Purposeful and pernicious centuries-deep racial discrimination is real and we can't wish it away
The 'slippery slope' Republicans fear most
Why conservatives love 'the slippery slope'
No, Ashley Vanderbilt did not escape Q
The rape of the republic, felt but unsaid
Why would the Republicans punish Marjorie Taylor Greene? She's doing what she's supposed to do
The Democrats' 'big, strong, bold' action should include efforts to renew loyalty to the republic
Donald Trump's second impeachment trial in the Senate is more meaningful than you think
Time for liberals to trust Chuck Schumer
Pause to appreciate Jennifer Psaki explaining the difference between good and bad partisanship
Joe Biden didn't just call for unity. He called for unity against enemies America must defeat
Will Biden lead to a 'Third Reconstruction'?
Trump was never made of Teflon
Now, white supremacy is treasonous
Can Republicans continue to be trusted?
Why Republicans won't fight terrorism
For Republicans, there is no choice
Is polite white society scared enough?
GOP's extortion won't work this time
In the end, consequences for Trump
Trump's 'confederate' insurrection