Why Some Will Forever Buy The Big Lie

Some will never quit believing Trump's big lie and he has proven that he'll never stop telling it. Jen Mercieca explains why this...

A Timeless Story Of Toxic Love

McCarthy pledged, "I will never leave that woman. I will always take care of her." One filthy hand washes the other in this toxic love story.

Trump Gets Hit With Big Sanctions (and more)

Trump and his attorney are under court order to pay Hillary Clinton, and 30 others, nearly $1 million for the idiotic RICO lawsuit that got tossed....

Florida, Man

Speaking as a Floridian, we might be some Red Hills, cracker-ass, hog-farming, shark-fishing, citrus-growing deep-fried weirdos, but the MAGA base is...

Waiting For The GOP To Change? Snap Out Of It!

More than half of McCarthy’s conference voted not to certify the free and fair 2020 election. These are not normal people and they will not change.

The Zero Sum Game Of Political Power

Time and again, we’ve witnessed McCarthy enable and appease Trump. McCarthy understands, even if Republicans want to pretend otherwise, that Trump...

The Power In The Words Of War

Blithely tossing out words like Nazi, genocide, or Fascist removes the meaning, impact, and truth of words that we desperately need to hold a...

An Unhappy Anniversary

The chaos of the Trump presidency culminated in a long-planned violent attempt to end the transfer of presidential power. The efforts to create chaos...

Vampires In The House

McCarthy has become the very thing that is keeping him from his dream job: A self-interested nihilist will to do and say anything for his own power.

Fox News and The Big Lie: A Tipping Point

Fox News’s promotion of Trump’s “Big Lie” marked a tipping point in the history of conservative media.

An Outsider's Reminder Of Who We Are

Zelenskyy’s speech was a rare chance for America to reflect on an image of self we haven’t seen since the early days following 9/11.

Turning The Page

Progress was made in 2022, but in 2023, the pro-democracy movement has more of a role to play than at any time in the last decade.

Over the Cliff Notes: The Criminal Referrals

The J6 Select Committee has made criminal referrals to the DOJ for Trump and others. What happens next? NOBODY goes deep and lays it all out like...

The Dangerous Delusion that Democracy Is Saved

Just as courage is contagious, so is cowardice, and the cancer of cowardice is running unchecked in the Republican party. There is no cure because...

The Seriousness of Unseriousness

Having unserious people in elected office who only want the title but not the job of working for the American people is a serious problem, explains...

Real Men Do Not Want To Be Feared

If your definition of "a real man" comes from insecure, foppish charlatans like Gorka, Tate, and Cawthorn, it's time to find new role models who...

Frame Warfare: The Battle Over Your Brain

The propagandists' battle to control how we think about things, events, people, and political controversies is called framing. Right-wing...

Disillusioned With Democracy

Why do Trump's voters stick with him? Teri Kanefield writes: They are mostly in agreement with Trump’s goals and they don’t care if he...

At Fox's World Cup, Human Rights And Truth Lose

Turning a blind eye to bad behavior for politics and profit have long been the beating heart of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox media empire.

Americans Are Under MAGA Media Fire

Right-wing and far-right media have become indistinguishable. Lisa Senecal writes that both instill fear and hate with deadly consequences.