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Only in the United States could doing one's job be considered quitting. That's how it's been defined by a corporate and managerial class livid about the shred of leverage workers have gained in an unusually strong labor market. Proliferating this week to every corner

I've griped enough about the potency of the American right's bad-faith political arguments and its poisoning of every major political issue we face today, making almost every problem intractable as good-faith centrists and liberals try (and fail) to make nice with nihilists who do not believe

Every game has rules, and every sport has a referee. But only the truly deranged would invent more rules with which to abide and install refs to enforce the rules that don't need to exist for any reason whatsoever. Forcing yourself to play by rules that your opponents

Jon Stewart, as America's rising tide of fascism became highly visible during the 2010 midterm election cycle, appealed for logic and compromise. He urged a detached approach to combatting the right's firehose of bad-faith politics. He wondered why we couldn't all just think straight

Maryland, thanks to the state's Democratic Party, is one shitty election cycle away from having a true-blue fascist in the governor's mansion. As a lifelong Marylander, I don't love it. In fact, I hate it. The state's Democratic machine spent millions to

Your political worldview invariably comes down to whether you think the point of politics is to be right, or to win. Being right – winning the argument, taking the crown in the so-called marketplace of ideas – has long been the goal of the American center-left. The facts will prevail, the thinking