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The right’s latest anti-trans hysteria just blew up
Amanda Marcotte
Anti-trans hysteria isn't just baseless — it's harmful
More than a litmus test: How the Big Lie threatens to crack up Trump’s coalition
Amanda Marcotte
Tensions rise in the GOP over how far to take the Big Lie and the politics of insurrection
‘They treat me like I’m old and stupid’: seniors decry health providers’ age bias
Judith Graham
In health care settings, age bias against seniors can lead to real harm
From Hasselbeck to McCain, “The View” needs the “right” hook when casting its conservative co-host
Melanie McFarland
Meghan McCain says "The View" needs a "real conservative." But what does that mean in daytime TV terms?
GOP gerrymandering will backfire on Republicans
Amanda Marcotte
Gerrymandering doesn't just hurt Democrats — it also speeds up the Republican race to the bottom
The evolution of Trump’s Big Lie: Republicans retool their conspiracy theory for the mainstream
Amanda Marcotte
Republicans are redefining "rigged" to make Trump's Big Lie more media-friendly
How to whip egg whites for lovely, luscious peaks
Kelly Vaughan
Then make macarons, lemon meringue pie and Swiss meringue
What do “centrists” want? Cutting back Biden’s agenda isn’t moderate — it’s reckless
Amanda Marcotte
Demands made by Manchin and Sinema will cost more in the long run than passing the original Build Back Better bill
Colin Powell’s legacy: How his WMDs lie led to Donald Trump’s Big Lie
Amanda Marcotte
With one UN speech, Powell helped usher in the era of a GOP driven by lies and conspiracy theories
Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan and the Proud Boys: How the fragility of the male ego fuels the far-right
Amanda Marcotte
Authoritarians know how to play on the gender anxieties of insecure men, building up an army of bitter chumps
Joe Biden’s Nixon moment: A policy agenda that could change history — and the media yawns
Matthew Rozsa
Nixon pushed for a startlingly progressive agenda 50 years ago, but the Beltway press didn't even pretend to care
Drug search in the Panama Canal: How my high school adventure at sea almost ended
Elizabeth W. Garber
"Our safe departure for the canal depends on each of you," the captain told our group of high schoolers in 1972
Democrats hit the panic button. Is it too little too late for Joe Biden?
Amanda Marcotte
Democratic voters are demoralized — can congressional leaders and Biden turn the ship around?
The QAnon playbook: Republicans make school board meetings the new battleground
Amanda Marcotte
GOP takes a page from QAnon: Using concern for kids to push authoritarianism
Jon Gruden’s censorship: Why conservatives decry the consequences of free speech
Amanda Marcotte
Conservatives defend Jon Gruden to distract from the real cancel culture taking hold at schools across the country
Republicans would “rather end democracy” than turn away from Trump, says Harvard professor
Dean Obeidallah
Co-author of "How Democracies Die" says the GOP is ready to seize power. But they might not be able to keep it
Anita Hill’s seismic testimony and its reckoning 30 years later: “She was in no woman’s land”
Kylie Cheung
"There was an understanding — white women stood for gender, and Black men stood for race" in 1991
Republicans’ war on vaccines: GOP pushes strategy to prolong the pandemic
Amanda Marcotte
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's ban on vaccine mandates shows how much Republicans are betting on COVID-19 to win in 2022
Behind the scenes of Donald Trump’s very strange White House meeting with Vietnam’s prime minister
Ted Osius
Nothing in my 30-year diplomatic career prepared me for this Trump administration event
The judge who jailed Black children for a crime that doesn’t exist
Meribah Knight, Ken Armstrong
Judge Donna Scott Davenport, who oversees a juvenile justice system, says kids face consequences that adults don't
Coping without your favorite Native American mascots
Kylie Cheung
Comedian Joey Clift has words for outraged sports fans who want to "honor" their team's racist pasts
Is Trump like Andrew Jackson? Yeah — in all the bad ways, and none of the good ones
Matthew Rozsa
Jackson created a cult of personality and pandered to racists — but compared to Trump, he was a visionary
Solving the climate crisis requires the end of capitalism
Jeremy Lent
Overcoming the climate crisis will require a shift away from our growth-based, corporate-dominated global system
Facebook and Trump: America is sleepwalking towards fascism
Amanda Marcotte
This week showed how powerful forces are aligned for the end of democracy
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