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Whataboutism, the last refuge for Republicans, is on the rise
Amanda Marcotte
Unable to defend their own views, conservatives are turning to "whataboutism" to deflect criticism
Joe Biden turns the tables on Republicans
Amanda Marcotte
Republicans spent years making politics about images, not policy — now Biden has weaponized that against them
Right-wing lies like Biden’s beef ban and Kamala’s book spread too fast for corrections to counter
Amanda Marcotte
Recent corrections from Fox News and the NY Post aren't going to stop them from becoming right wing gospel online
Fake burger bans and other people’s masks: Republicans crawl deeper into their imaginary victimhood
Amanda Marcotte
Republicans' victimhood addiction grows: Why conservatives are increasingly attached to utterly made-up threats
The Charlottesville model: Trump’s “fine people” praise of white nationalists is now GOP mainstream
Amanda Marcotte
Racist voting laws, love for killer cops, and encouraging violence against protesters: This is the post-Trump GOP
Don’t bleach it away: Remembering the day Trump turned the GOP into a death cult
Amanda Marcotte
Reflections on the one year anniversary of Donald Trump suggesting Americans inject bleach to fight COVID-19
Tucker Carlson’s immigration bait-and-switch betrays his desperation
Amanda Marcotte
No one denies that immigration brings change, Tucker — just that it's racist to be angry about it
The making of a right-wing martyr: Conservatives treat Derek Chauvin’s conviction as an act of war
Amanda Marcotte
Turning a dead-eyed murderer like Derek Chauvin into a martyr shows that the right has no limits on its open racism
Republican attacks on Maxine Waters prove the GOP is committed to a politics of white whining
Amanda Marcotte
Kevin McCarthy denies the GOP is racist only to disprove himself by blasting Maxine Waters with bad faith umbrage
The link between America’s rising maternal mortality rates and abortion
Amanda Marcotte
It's not a coincidence that maternal mortality rates began rising as abortion became harder to get
The forging of a Black Captain America by battling supremacy in “Falcon and the Winter Soldier”
Melanie McFarland
To take up Cap's shield in a country built on white supremacy requires more than a stellar workout montage
America’s minority rule problem is deadly
Amanda Marcotte
Between the pandemic and gun violence, the death toll from America's minority rule problem is staggering
Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine: GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden
Amanda Marcotte
The right-wing death cult is getting better at convincing conservatives to reject vaccines
Republicans take trolling to “trigger the libs” to the next level
Amanda Marcotte
Republicans settle on their rhetorical strategy for dismantling democracy: Trolling the left
Trump’s lasting legacy: Scandals don’t hurt politicians like Matt Gaetz and Andrew Cuomo
Amanda Marcotte
Politicians in the post-Trump era bet they can weather scandals by playing chicken with a press that's easily bored
Derek Chauvin’s trial is a test of whether facts matter
Amanda Marcotte
Will the truth prevail or will we face an ugly reminder of how often facts don't matter in the face of bigotry?
Republicans got the Supreme Court they wanted: That will change America forever
Amanda Marcotte
Author Ian Millhiser on how a party that can't win elections is using the courts to drive a hard-right agenda
Trump’s Big Lie and Hitler’s: Is this how America’s slide into totalitarianism begins?
Matthew Rozsa
Hitler undermined democracy by lying about World War I; Trumpists want to do it by lying about the 2020 election
John Boehner doesn’t deserve a rehabilitation tour: Mayor of GOP’s “Crazytown” sparked rise of Trump
Amanda Marcotte
The former speaker wants to remake himself into a respected elder statesman, but he helped turn the GOP radical
Republicans are waging war against US children: Anti-trans bills part of longstanding GOP campaign
Amanda Marcotte
The attack on trans kids is the latest front in the multi-decade Republican war on children
Trump’s defense of Matt Gaetz is a major problem for the GOP
Amanda Marcotte
Gaetz's scandal illustrates the dangers of the GOP chasing the dirtbag vote — but Trump won't let them run away
Republican delusion — not disinformation — is the bigger danger to American democracy
Amanda Marcotte
Republicans voters aren't just delusional — even more frightening is how they've turned on democracy
GOP cancel culture targets Georgia: Republicans want to silence critics of their war on voting
Amanda Marcotte
Republicans are trying to impose "white people's Thanksgiving" rules on the entire nation
Church membership is in a freefall, and the Christian right has only themselves to blame
Amanda Marcotte
Fewer than half of Americans now belong to a church, and the trend of pew abandonment isn't slowing down
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