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Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ron DeSantis isn’t a dirtbag. That’s exactly why he won’t beat Donald Trump

Amanda Marcotte
Sorry, Republican elites, but a stiff-necked Bible bully who graduated both Yale and Harvard can't win Trump's base
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held at the Tampa Convention Center on July 23, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The backlash to Christianity: Republicans are now panicked — but they only have themselves to blame

Amanda Marcotte
It's not lack of school prayer causing people to abandon faith, it's that Christianity has become a toxic religion
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. | Hundreds of young climate activists march along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House to demand that President Joe Biden work to make the Green New Deal into law on June 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Take Joe Manchin’s deal: Climate bill may be Democrats’ last chance to bring back young voters

Amanda Marcotte
Biden's numbers with young voters are in the tank, but passing a climate bill might be the thing to save Democrats
Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life speaks during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on July 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Republicans recycle their mass shooting playbook to deflect blame for Roe overturn

Amanda Marcotte
The template for numbing Americans to mass murder is being used to evade responsibility for abortion ban horrors
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held at the Tampa Convention Center on July 23, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump’s inner turmoil: He craves credit for January 6 — but can’t admit it for fear of prison

Amanda Marcotte
New January 6 video shows an unrepentant Trump — and predicts the increasing threat of right-wing violence
Steve Bannon, advisor to former President Donald Trump, speaks to the media as a protester stands behind him, outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse on June 15, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Steve Bannon’s bluster falls flat: Trumpism is weakened when its leaders face consequences

Amanda Marcotte
Josh Hawley's run was more than a laugh — it illustrated how fascists may talk big but are cowards underneath
Tucker Carlson (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fox News’ desperate distraction circus: Anything to have viewers ignore the January 6 hearings

Amanda Marcotte
Could the January 6 hearings be enough to prick the consciences of Trump voters? Fox News clearly fears so
Thousands marched and rallied in support of legal abortion access after the U.S. Supreme court overturned the federal constitutional right to an abortion. They were there to show the leaders and country what Minnesotans really stand for. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How to win post-Roe legal battles for abortion: “People should feel like they have a voice”

Amanda Marcotte
"We didn't know that Roe was going to be overturned," says Amanda Allen, before helping save an abortion sanctuary
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The press tries to grade Republicans on a curve — but the GOP still hates marriage equality

Amanda Marcotte
Sorry, media, support for same-sex marriage is not "bipartisan"
Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life speaks during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on July 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Republicans are playing word games with “abortion”

Amanda Marcotte
Politically inconvenient abortions get called "not abortions" by the same people who call birth control "abortion"
Law enforcement officers stand looking at a memorial following a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 26, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The truth about Uvalde: Will this mass shooting wake Americans up to the need for police reform?

Amanda Marcotte
Police abuses are justified with claims that cops "protect" us — but, as Uvalde shows, they don't even do that
Jesse Watters | Members of the Proud Boys march towards Freedom Plaza during a protest on December 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trumpism before Trump: Misogyny remains the thread tying the right-wing coalition together

Amanda Marcotte
From the secular Proud Boys to the Bible-hugging preachers, the desire for male supremacy holds the right together
Fox anchor Jesse Watters speaks during "Jesse Watters Primetime" at Fox News Channel Studios (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Post-Roe gaslighting: The party of QAnon denies the very real rape of a 10-year-old

Amanda Marcotte
A shameful episode in right-wing media is a reminder: Republicans only care about kids when they're imaginary
Stephen Ayres (L), who has pleaded guilty to entering the Capitol illegally on January 6, talks to US Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn (R) at the conclusion of a full committee hearing on "the January 6th Investigation," on Capitol Hill on July 12, 2022, in Washington, DC. (OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA is complicit — not conned: Trump supporters were the most pivotal part of his coup

Amanda Marcotte
Trump is a "man, not an impressionable child" — but his followers aren't naive children, either
Stephen Ayres (C), who entered the U.S. Capitol illegally on January 6, 2021, greets former Washington Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone at the conclusion of the seventh hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on July 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

January 6 hearing makes it clear: MAGA is a cult

Amanda Marcotte
The January 6 committee portrays Trump as a sinister cult leader and his followers as his dupes
U.S. President Joe Biden bows his head in prayer (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Biden’s bewildering reaction to Roe: Limp response to overturn explains his drastic drop in approval

Amanda Marcotte
Abortion could be the issue to split Republicans — but Biden is dividing Democrats instead
Laura Ingraham (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Fox News’ Laura Ingraham escalates the GOP’s war on learning: “Time to defund government education”

Amanda Marcotte
Along with Florida's new law, the GOP end game comes in to view: To turn Americans into a bunch of ignoramuses
Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows arrives to testify during the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol hearing | NYPD officers arrest abortion rights activist after they blocked traffic while protesting the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade by the US Supreme Court, in New York | Actor Amber Heard attends her ex-husband Johnny Depp's defamation trial against her (Photo illustration by Salon)

Our summer of misogynist rage: Toxic men unleash a wave of violent threats aimed at outspoken women

Amanda Marcotte
"Backlash" isn't enough to describe the abuse faced by Cassidy Hutchinson, Amber Heard, and pro-choice protesters
US Representative Liz Cheney speaks during a House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 9, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

“This is clear witness intimidation”: Jan. 6 committee teases evidence of cover-up effort

Jessica Corbett
"You don't tamper with witnesses like this if you have nothing to hide"
Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, arrives to testify during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC, on June 28, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Keep your hands on the wheel: What’s real — or a distraction — about Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony

Heather Digby Parton
The House Select Committee on January 6 has marshaled facts in fastidious detail showing Trump's intent for a coup
Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to then White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in during a House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 28, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Cassidy Hutchinson’s surprise Jan. 6 testimony exposes the violence that fuels Trumpism

Amanda Marcotte
Trump imagined himself as the head of a barbaric mob — and lashed out physically when he didn't get his way
Virginia and Clarence Thomas | Supporters of the "Peoples Convoy" wave US flags as the truck convoy heads east on Interstate Highway 70, on March 1, 2022, near St. Jacob, Illinois (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Clarence Thomas’ gun decision ensures that the next January 6 will be much deadlier

Amanda Marcotte
Ginni Thomas worked the coup's inside game — then her husband made it easier for insurrectionists to use firearms
Abortion rights activists Carrie McDonald (L) and Soraya Bata react to the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling which overturns the landmark abortion Roe v. Wade case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The end of Roe v. Wade: American democracy is collapsing

Amanda Marcotte
Judges appointed by popular vote-losing presidents used a stolen Supreme Court seat to overturn the people's will
Former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Steven Engel (L) Former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen (C) and former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue (R) are sworn in during the fifth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC, on June 23, 2022. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Ringing the alarm for Merrick Garland: Department of Justice stands in real peril because of Trump

Amanda Marcotte
Are you listening, Merrick Garland? Protecting the DOJ means keeping Trump's stubby fingers off it
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