Earlier this year, nearly every Republican in the House voted against an emergency spending bill designed to address the baby formula crisis. As Bess Levin of Vanity Fair pointed out at the time, Florida representative Kat Cammack had the previous week “tweeted a photo of formula at a U.S. border…

With Biden’s approval rating in the tank, runaway inflation and Democrats constituting the majority in Congress, history suggests the midterms should have been a rousing success for the opposition party. Instead, Democrats have a good shot at maintaining control of the US Senate and Republicans will likely have a very…

There’s an incessant narrative that goes like this: The US political system is broken and democracy is under attack. The rise of Trump and Jan 6 are pointed to as evidence. Please cancel all subscriptions to that narrative. The US political system is monumentally anti-democratic by design. By. Design. It…

In a recent exchange I had here on Medium, the subject of electability (specifically as it pertains to the more progressive Democrats, such as Bernie Sanders and AOC) was raised. I think the assumption that Sanders would have lost to Trump is debatable. Opposition to the status quo is such…

Corrupt as our political system is, I might argue that the crime of the century is the Right’s cold-blooded murder of satire. Just from a cursory glance at a few recent headlines, I see that a GOP Congresswoman was brought to tears over her opposition to equal rights, Fox News…

I’ll keep this short. I was just reading that Alito, in the case involving the bigoted web designer, drew a parallel to a black mall Santa being forced to take photos with a child dressed in KKK gear. As if being a member of a hate group is equivalent to…

On the heels of yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, which outlawed childhood vaccination while making it mandatory that all newborns be branded with no fewer than three corporate logos, President-elect Ron DeSantis announced his intention to sign several executive orders opposed by a majority of Americans, including a ban on the…