The Incredibly Gross Bad Faith of Birth Rate Worries
Let's call the birth rate worries what they are: Fretting that the white supremacist hierarchy could one day be toppled through sheer numbers
Denny Carter
The Disadvantage of Caring About Anything
For all the energy I expend on detailing the deleterious effects of the right wing’s political bad faith, I acknowledge – through a clenched jaw and gritted molars – that it is a useful tactic for which there is no easy counter.
The vitality of bad faith attacks launched by the
Your Traditionalism Isn't Punk Rock
Posting about abiding by traditionalist norms is not in any way counterculture.
So Close, Yet So Tragically Far
Conservatives are always so close to identifying the source of their suffering, the core of society’s wrenching inequalities that have immiserated everyday working people for so long.
They were close during the early days of the COVID pandemic, when it was clear multibillion dollar pharmaceutical companies that had intentionally
It's OK To Fall In Line – For Now
A deeply unfortunate byproduct of every election becoming an existential contest between authoritarianism and what remains of democracy is that the left cannot – for now – challenge failed Democratic orthodoxy.
This is not an admission of defeat to the forces of the disastrous centrism that has defined the Democratic Party for
White Supremacy Is Sheer Terror
Americans refuse to face the nation's past. More than ever, we turn from it, hide from it.
The Belligerent, Bad-Faith Bullshit of SCOTUS's Major Questions Doctrine
Creating an impenetrable force field through which no progressive public policy could pass was always going to be a two-step process for the American right. And the second step is more infuriating – and for the left, more vexing – than the first.
The first step in creating a right-wing backstop against