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GOP's 'Politically Correct' Indignation Is Rank Hypocrisy

By Cody Fenwick
Danziger: A High-Pitched Whine

By Jeff Danziger
Kanye West Dumping Trump? 'I've Been Used'

By Matthew Chapman
Hours Before Synagogue Shooting, DeSantis Repeats Soros Slur

By Oliver Willis
How Republicans Empower Violent Fascist Gangs

By Cristina Lopez G.

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GOP's 'Politically Correct' Indignation Is Rank Hypocrisy
A dust-up over a joke about a Republican politician's war injury reveals conservative hypocrisy.
By Cody Fenwick
Danziger: A High-Pitched Whine
Trump's racialized rhetoric continues to enchant his most fanatical followers -- who insist they aren't bigoted at all.
By Jeff Danziger
Kanye West Dumping Trump? 'I've Been Used'
There is speculation Trump's attack on birthright citizenship might have been the last straw for him.
By Matthew Chapman
Hours Before Synagogue Shooting, DeSantis Repeats Soros Slur
Ron DeSantis spewed anti-Semitism to a crowd of supporters just hours before a shooter killed 11 at a Pennsylvania synagogue.
By Oliver Willis
How Republicans Empower Violent Fascist Gangs
From the Proud Boys to Turning Point USA, extremists are ascendant on the right, but legacy media are too often playing catch-up.
By Cristina Lopez G.
What Republican Whiners Dread Is Democracy - Not 'Mob Rule'
No less an authority than Donald J. Trump, the nation’s leading exponent of racial grievance theory, fears for the safety of the republic.
By Gene Lyons

Against Trump's Elitism, Try Do-It-Yourself Populism
While Trump voters are predominantly white, the working-class families visited by People's Action included black, Latinx, Native American and other residents living in these economically distressed rural communities.
By Jim Hightower
McConnell Urging 'Bipartisan' Cuts In Social Security And Medicare
The Republican tax scam has completely failed, so now Mitch McConnell wants to gut America's social safety net to foot the enormous bill.
By Oliver Willis
Will Trump's Evangelicals Suffer Retribution?
America’s conservative evangelicals, however, have taken up that diabolical offer.
By Alternet
White House Watch

Kanye West Dumping Trump? 'I've Been Used'
There is speculation Trump's attack on birthright citizenship might have been the last straw for him.
By Matthew Chapman
Will Trump's Evangelicals Suffer Retribution?
America’s conservative evangelicals, however, have taken up that diabolical offer.
By Alternet
Trump Attacks Tallahassee Mayor As Hurricane Looms Over City
Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum slammed Trump for his attacks on Tallahassee as the city faces down a deadly hurricane.
By Oliver Willis
Kellyanne: Trump Kept Anti-Abortion Promise With Kavanaugh
Conway finally stopped pretending and admitted that Kavanaugh will gut reproductive rights on the Supreme Court.
By Tommy Christopher
Trump Says He Mocked Dr. Ford To ‘Even The Playing Field’
Trump made sure the fix was in for Brett Kavanaugh, and stacked the deck even higher against Christine Blasey Ford.
By Tommy Christopher
White House Drafts Exec Order Against Liberal 'Bias' Online
Trump is upset that his bad decisions don't play well online — and now the White House has prepared an executive order targeting tech companies for supposed 'bias.'
By Oliver Willis
Presidential Election

Bipartisan Furor As N.C. Law Closes Early Voting Locations
Nearly half of the state’s counties are shutting down polling places, in part because of a law passed in June.
By ProPublica
One Dollar, One Vote: The One Percent's Stealth Coup
No one should unfairly lose their franchise, but the poll demonstrated that people of color, that is people less likely to be 1 percenters or Republicans, lost out twice as often as white people.
By Leo W. Gerard
The Silly Debate About Socialism
Would someone kindly tell us which companies Bernie Sanders would nationalize, starting with Bernie Sanders?
By Froma Harrop
Judge In Voter Suppression Case Orders Kobach Return To Law School. Really.
Even more embarrassing than the loss, though, is that the judge thought Kobach's performance in defending the policy was so bad that he literally has to go back to school.
By Cody Fenwick
Danziger: Elephant In The Gloom
Some are enthused, some are craven, but Republican officials all know by now that their once grand party is merely a vehicle for this autocrat.
By Jeff Danziger
Why Political Reform Is So Difficult — And So Necessary
The system, which was instituted in 2010 and backed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was promoted as elevating more moderate candidates.
By Steven Rosenfeld
Capitol Hill

Kavanaugh's 'Character Assassination'
Brett Kavanaugh and his defenders could have used a thesaurus this week as they tried to cope with a second allegation of sexual assault.
By Steve Chapman
August Farewells To McCain -- And Another Great, Too
Lightly smiling, McCain tapped in Morse code on the elegant lunch table, to show how he communicated with other prisoners of war in the Hanoi Hilton. I couldn't get over his cheer.
By Jamie Stiehm
How McCain Paved The Way For Trump
He gave the senator from Arizona so many chances to display his admirable qualities that you could forget he had others.
By Steve Chapman
Cable Anchors: GOP Officials Refuse Invites To Discuss Trump's Helsinki Disaster
CNN’s Kate Bolduan: “I should note, we invited on all of the Republicans on the Senate intelligence committee today to talk about all of this. Those Republican members have all declined.”
By Grace Bennett
How Mitch McConnell Made Donald Trump
The president owes both his election and his long-term impact to the Senate majority leader, who not only engineered the strategy that will let Trump make two Supreme Court appointments, but also created the circumstances that facilitated his rise.
By Alec MacGillis
Where Is The Republican Gene McCarthy?
Twice in this campaign year, I have heard candidates publicly disparaging their opponents for, not unlike McCarthy, acting on conscience.
By Mark Shields
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