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As Russia and Hungary have shown us, once a country has lost the institutions that maintain its democracy, it’s damn hard to get them back.
"The ideas spouted by the current crop of Republican elected officials, including their loathing of undocumented immigrants, frighten and appall me."
Not one of the extremists currently holding office in our Congress qualifies to do so. Yet here they are, grinding the country to a halt.
No person who loves their country and takes its security seriously could ever even remotely consider voting for Jim Jordan, a preposterous figure whose rise portends a national catastrophe every bit as much as Trump’s did.
The Hamas-Israel violence, present and past, are vast and sprawling horrors that have been metastasizing for thousands of years. How can any of us claim we’re capable of making sense out of it, let alone sum it up in a few words?
Beyond Canada's legendary reputation for politeness, the contrast between the workings of their Parliament and our Congress could not be more striking.
America’s authoritarian movement, centered on the support of Trump, has rooted itself within the Republican Party, and the party has sided with the authoritarian dictator of Russia against NATO, the EU, and Ukraine.
Joseph Ladapo has a distinguished past as part of the quack group "America's Frontline Doctors" with their crazed ideas for combating COVID. As Florida's Surgeon General, he is still against prevention ideas like vaccines and boosters.
Are we really as divided as we’re being told we are? A new paper from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace takes up that question. Its answer may surprise you.
Can we rescue our nation from treasonous Republicans, who are trying to shut down our government to help Putin while they continue to bow and scrape to "The Rapist Who Would Be King?"
As the original shapers of right-wing media fade into history, Charlie Kirk seemingly hopes to raise his own profile in the conservative movement by leaning into increasingly hardcore far-right positions.
Atonement is not simply just recanting your transgressions but doing something about them. But what makes it even cooler is tracing back a definition that is obsolete. To atone meant to bring into unity, or harmony. It meant to create unity.
Far-right censorship zealots have decided that the men who raised Christian the lion from a cub and later released him in Kenya seemed gay—they aren't—but that was enough for them ban the story.
The threats of violence used against government officials by Trump supporters echo the terror campaigns run by followers of Mussolini and Hitler in the early days of their rising to power.
Returning America from the brink of a dystopian nightmare where millions wander a landscape of their own invented reality will only occur when trust in institutions is restored.