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Jul 7, 2021

How a Romney presidency – which was set up to succeed – could have changed our current political climate

We’ve all heard of the Butterfly Effect: the idea that if you traveled back in time and killed a butterfly the present would be unrecognizable. I think it would take something more significant to alter the course of history, but the theory gets its point across and makes you think…

Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney

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Apr 6, 2021

The Deadly Combo of Republican Projection and Cynicism

When Gov. Brian Kemp and his Republican allies in Georgia recently passed an egregious voter- suppression law, targeted at African Americans, I wondered how they could be so shameless. Not only was their intent obvious, but the law was predicated on a lie, as their Republican Sec. …

Cynicism

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Cynicism

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Mar 18, 2021

The Right’s Cries of ‘Cancel Culture’ Is a Myth – or Even Projection

Background: I wrote this in response to an op-ed by a college sophomore, titled “Can we just cancel the ‘cancel culture?’, which ran in my hometown paper and which echoed the rightwing narrative that frames this ill-defined phenomenon as a leftwing threat. But as I write, in a way that…

Cancel Culture

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Cancel Culture

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Sep 6, 2020

Trump’s Fixed Base, and Why a Diversifying America Won’t Save Democracy Unless We Win Now

In her newsletter on Aug. 27, sent after the RNC, historian Heather Cox Richardson captured the ethos of Donald Trump’s base, how it’s fueled by resentment and fear of a changing society. …

Trumpism

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Trumpism

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Aug 21, 2020

Combating Right-Wing Disinformation

I often struggle to zero in on specific outrages in the Trump era. There’s just too much. Every day brings new destruction, new threats to democracy, and we’re almost inured to every bombshell report or embarrassing interview that would end any other presidency. But focusing on a particular aspect within…

Disinformation

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Combating Right-Wing Disinformation
Combating Right-Wing Disinformation
Disinformation

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Aug 10, 2020

Liberals Thinking of Staying Home: Consider All of This First

With less than 90 days until the election, I find that my greatest fear is a depressed turnout for Joe Biden. This site hasn’t relieved that anxiety. At all. Which is why I felt compelled to write this piece. I want to push back against certain views that I see…

Voter Turnout

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Voter Turnout

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Jul 28, 2020

The Left and Right Are Not Equal, No Matter How Many Instigators Cry “Both Sides”

Matt Taibbi’s latest piece, The Left is Now the Right, misses the point in our political divide. In arguing that the Left and Right have “traded villainous cultural pathologies,” he conflates citizens and social unrest with lawmakers and policy. …

Asymmetry

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Asymmetry

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Jul 25, 2020

Progressives Should Welcome Anyone Into The Resistance

If John Kasich’s endorsement would backfire on Joe Biden’s candidacy, as some have suggested, then I hope the former Republican governor doesn’t speak at the Democratic National Convention. There’s no reason to upset the most ardent Bernie Sanders holdouts. But I can’t say that I wouldn’t be disappointed in those…

Joe Biden

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Joe Biden

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