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A Horrifying Heaping of Anti-Abortion Good Faith
When the right deals in good faith, we must listen. It reveals everything about their actual goals and clarifies the stakes for this and future elections.
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Fascism and Bad Faith
The Legitimation of Violence Should Scare Us All
Violence has and always will be a central part of any successful fascist movement, largely because intimidation is necessary when such a small portion of the population supports your hideous policy goals, as much as those exist in a fascist movement.
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Americans Are Seeing Through RFK's Bad Faith
Democrats see RFK Jr. as a phony he is
Elon Musk's Bad Faith
Elon Musk And The Gates of Bad-Faith Hell
It was so terribly easy to predict if one understands the mindset of the bad-faith free speech warrior, the brave First Amendment enjoyer who pretends all speech is equally good and bad because that's the only way to funnel hateful ideology into the cultural and political mainstream.
Fascism and Bad Faith
The Unstoppable Incoherence of Fascism
Fascists have no real politics. They have no platform. And that's to their great advantage.
It's Time For Left-Wing Wrestlemania Politics
The snobbish part of me – the part that wants at all times to tell people what they like is actually bad – desperately wants to disparage all things WWE. I want to call it lowbrow and idiotic, a children’s spectacle for people (men, mostly) who have never grown up. Once
Fascism and Bad Faith
Fascism: An Expression of Gut-Wrenching Fear
I’m halfway through Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism and I take no pleasure in reporting the United States is checking a lot of fascist boxes. Too many. Way too many. Sometimes I find myself squirming in my seat as I read the timely tome, hoping – praying
'We Know What They Want To Say'
"The fact that I don't believe in their untruthful and wrong ideology scares them."
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The Beautiful, Maddening Naivety of Stephen Breyer
That there are untold millions of well-meaning people who lack any semblance of a bad-faith argument detector is painfully obvious to you, the Bad Faith Times reader. The central conceit of this publication is that public officials and opinion shapers on the left operate under an unshakeable presumption
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We Are Drowning In Propaganda
My dad, during our daily phone conversations based mostly on the day’s sports happenings, never fails to mention Something He Saw Online Today. This something, he always prefaces, may or may not be real. It’s probably fake. But it seems sorta real, and it was shared on his
This Week In Bad Faith
I’ve wanted to write a wrap-up sort of column for a while now. I consume a lot of news – grinding my molars listening to NPR on the way to the kids’ school and reading the New York Times and Washington Post until I become one with my existential
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The Infrastructure of a Bad-Faith Political Attack
Lawmakers, media outlets, scientific journals, everyday folks: They’re all starting to recognize the mountain of bad faith that is the anti-abortion movement. Hopefully, it’s not too late. Since the radically right-wing Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, there’s been a burgeoning consciousness that