Denny Carter

In a ritualistic act or the purest self loathing, I track the news closely. I've done so for nearly twenty years. I doom scroll and click and read and doom scroll and click and read – over and over again until I become one with my despair. In the

Student debt cancelation is subject to a devilish two-pronged attack that might give it eternal life. Our $1.7 trillion in student loan debt is destined to be the Dracula of American politics.   On one side stand generally well-meaning (mostly white) liberals who probably won't understand the nature

Being an American parent in the early 21st century means standing over your child as she sleeps and trying desperately not to imagine her body torn apart by bullets shot from a machine designed specifically to kill humans. That's where I found myself Tuesday night after hours of

Welcome to the first Bad Faith Times question and answer session. It's truly a landmark event. Everyone is saying so. I'll do these every so often, depending on the #news and the impact of bad faith politics on current events. You can participate in these little

Thanks to every one of you committed doom scrollers for supporting Bad Faith Times over the past few weeks. Unfortunately for humanity but fortunately for me, there's quite a bit of interest in how bad-faith politics is poisoning our brains, and therefore the discourse. Last week I told

The right can invent alternate political realities to their blackened hearts' content, but without judges to play their sly bad faith game, none of it matters. None of it has teeth. This is why the right wing for the better part of a half century has been singularly focused