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Denny Carter

Denny Carter

This Week In Bad Faith

This Week In Bad Faith

I’ve wanted to write a wrap-up sort of column for a while now. I consume a lot of news – grinding my molars listening to NPR on the way to the kids’ school and reading the New York Times and Washington Post until I become one with my existential terror

The Infrastructure of a Bad-Faith Political Attack

The Infrastructure of a Bad-Faith Political Attack

Lawmakers, media outlets, scientific journals, everyday folks: They’re all starting to recognize the mountain of bad faith that is the anti-abortion movement. Hopefully, it’s not too late. Since the radically right-wing Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, there’s been a burgeoning consciousness that the entire

The Conditioning Of The American Right

The Conditioning Of The American Right

The funniest part of Tucker Carlson going all the way to Russia to visit a grocery store is that he’s definitely never shopped at an American grocery store. The living embodiment of the country club Republican – the heir of William Buckley’s New England-style fascism, so prim and proper

The Politics of The Cool Dad

The Politics of The Cool Dad

I’m going to break some news here and tell you human beings don’t like to be critiqued. I once coached a flag football team that included kids with various degrees of athletic experience and prowess, and quickly learned (the hard way) that my messaging to these children had

When They Admit It

When They Admit It

Sometimes sussing out political bad faith requires an oversized corkboard and a ball of yarn and three dozen brightly colored tacks. You run the risk of looking quite unhinged in proving someone is saying something they do not mean to score political points, even when the dots connect. Other times

There Is No You

There Is No You

It was an icy, ultra-realist lyric that rang out of my little car’s speakers in college. The words made me feel mature and wise and, frankly, smug as shit. “There is no you,” Trent Reznor growls in the Nine Inch Nails song, Only, “there is only me.” Maybe Reznor

The Bad Faith Must Be Stopped At Its Source

The Bad Faith Must Be Stopped At Its Source

Donald Trump’s Twitter account was very much like a fire-breathing dragon marauding around your front yard. You knew the dragon was there, and you knew it was capable of shooting columns of flames out of its yawning mouth at any moment. You tried not to open the curtains and