Made toxic by the rise of MAGA fascism and a much less dangerous but still worrisome form of intolerant “progressivism,” the American political atmosphere is thick these days with accusations of bad faith, often misstated as “hypocrisy.” …

Angry White Man Sam taunted us, in the instantly infamous Supreme Court ruling he authored yesterday destroying abortion rights in America. If women really care so much about their precious rights, he sneered, they can vote accordingly. He’s betting that they won’t, and also that no men care about women’s…

Surely there’s nothing more that can be said about the Trump Supreme Court’s destruction of abortion rights? After all, everybody already knew it was coming. Time to move on. Nothing to see here, folks. American women are joining their Afghan sisters under the black shroud. To quote Melania Trump, “I…

The cries of the murdered schoolchildren of Uvalde were not loud enough to reach the Trump Justices, in their marble Temple of Moloch. The Constitution is not a suicide pact, the late Justice Robert Jackson once said. No; for Justice Thomas, now miraculously cured of his decades-long case of lockjaw…

There is much amazement over an interview Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a conservative Republican, gave to the Associated Press after his emotional testimony before the U.S. House Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 putsch. After tearfully telling the world about the torrent of vile death threats he and his…

“How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see?” Bob Dylan once asked. …

America has entered an age of mass death, but it’s clear that most Americans have barely noticed, and many, perhaps a majority, don’t care. It’s part of present-day American lore that Florida is uniquely “stupid” or “crazy,” as witness the online popularity of the “Florida Man” theme: news of male…

Have you heard the one about the Sicilian peasant who got his revenge? They say he waited fifty years… and he only struck then because he was in a hurry. The fascist backlash to the American civil rights movement has been building for just about exactly that same amount of…

As they wait for Trump to return and Make America Groan Again, the MAGA-fied Republican Party has adopted the internal dynamic of its fellow terrorist organizations worldwide: constantly savaging one another for insufficient extremism. Take Dan Crenshaw, the rising young fascist Congressman from Texas. He and his staff were just…