In Ball of Thread, Marcy Wheeler unwinds the story of the attack that has brought us to the brink of fascism so that we can step back. America, if you’re listening, please ask yourself one question. How the hell did we get here? How did we get to the
We know nothing about his medical situation and everything about his mendacity. We all falter. But Robert Kennedy Jr. is horrible in a way that suggests he’s less a Measles-loving nepo baby and more a biblical plague sent to punish America for our fixation on political dynasties. First, let’
After Trump saved his gavel, Speaker Johnson paid the ex back with the public launch of Big Lie version 2.024. If you look back at what cost Kevin McCarthy his career, it’s that he’s a snake. Democrats couldn’t trust him, because he kept lying to them.
Buried in a story about Trump auditioning running mates, as if it were still 2016 and Apprentice references were still cute because Trump hadn’t tried to have his last running mate lynched, was one of the most revealing and important admissions of this election year. One other thing that
All we have is our focus. And that becomes more valuable as people try to use it against us. This all started because a bunch of good people can’t stand Marjorie Taylor Greene. And because we mostly exist only in our own thoughts, we assumed that anyone, if given
Primaries. You’ve probably heard by now that the repeal of Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban has been signed into law by Governor Katie Hobbs. Given how offensive, unpopular and barbaric the law reinstated by the GOP-packed Supreme Court is, this news probably doesn’t surprise you all that much.
Samuel Alito makes the case for a particular kind of dictatorship. One silly thing I used to believe is that serious Republican thinkers held to a principle that has often been described as the “unitary executive theory.” This is the ridiculous idea that a bunch of guys who hated kings
Please listen to the activists who have been right about this the whole time. The last thing you want to do for the next six months is listen to anything Donald Trump says about abortion. All of it will be lies. All of it is meant to confuse. All of
Our victory is a victory for anyone who fights to protect our freedoms. Two special elections this week returned majority control of Michigan’s state house to Democrats. With our “trifecta” restored, we’re back in the democracy business. And one of the very first things Democrats want to do
And because it targets poor women in the South almost no one cares. We’re often told that the biggest threats speech faces in our society is either opinionated college students or “DEI,” which happen to be two of the right-wing’s favorite targets. Conservatives constantly scream about their speech
The one sentence of Project 2025 every American needs to read. What is the point of publishing a 920-page prescription of policies for “the next conservative president?” The Republican establishment – led by The Heritage Foundation, which brought together dozens of right-wing organizations to plot Project 2025 – is determined to not
Best-selling historian Carol Anderson explains how voting rights are inseparable from reproductive rights. Two Supreme Court decisions issued almost exactly nine years apart help explain both how American democracy became so imperiled, and how we can save it. On June 25, 2013, a 5-4 decision authored by John Roberts invalidated
If you follow Marcy Wheeler, you know Trump begging for Putin’s help in 2016 and 2024's floundering impeachment are the same scandal. But only if you follow Marcy. Due to the obvious authoritarian aims of the 2025 Project and a promise to ”certainly” prosecute political opponents, there
As the pandemic began, IVF gave me a chance to become a human. It was four years ago today. After about 34 hours inside Ann Arbor’s St. Joseph Mercy Hospital and a lifetime of heroic pushing by my wife, my daughter was born. She, like every newborn, was a
If we don’t expand the court, there’s little hope democracy will survive a century of right-wing rule. “We have a Supreme Court that is controlled by a super majority, 6-3 right-wing super majority. The Court's been controlled for more than 50 consecutive years by the Republican
It makes sense why MAGA needs to cover up Trump’s weaknesses. So why is the press so interested in helping Republicans? No one has made a closer study of the ways Donald Trump turns words into weapons than Dr. Jennifer Mercieca. The author of “Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical