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I'm Obsessed With Dark Brandon's Rejection of Good Faith

I'm Obsessed With Dark Brandon's Rejection of Good Faith

Joe Biden, who came of age in an era of relative bipartisan comity and spent three decades bragging about his conservative record in the U.S. Senate, walked right up to the truth-telling line last week. He recently called Trump-style Republicans – also known as all Republicans – "semi-fascist." This

Stop Being The Enemy Of The Good

Stop Being The Enemy Of The Good

Sometimes those who don't need or deserve government help – the rich, the privileged – are going to get assistance if people who truly need the help – workers living paycheck to paycheck – are going to see a modicum of relief. That's the sobering, teeth-clenching reality of effective political

The Infuriating Bad Faith Of 'Quiet Quitting'

The Infuriating Bad Faith Of 'Quiet Quitting'

Only in the United States could doing one's job be considered quitting. That's how it's been defined by a corporate and managerial class livid about the shred of leverage workers have gained in an unusually strong labor market. Proliferating this week to every corner

4 Weird Tricks To Blunt Bad-Faith Politics

4 Weird Tricks To Blunt Bad-Faith Politics

I've griped enough about the potency of the American right's bad-faith political arguments and its poisoning of every major political issue we face today, making almost every problem intractable as good-faith centrists and liberals try (and fail) to make nice with nihilists who do not believe

Good Faith Politics Is Going To Ruin A Lot Of Americans

Good Faith Politics Is Going To Ruin A Lot Of Americans

Every game has rules, and every sport has a referee. But only the truly deranged would invent more rules with which to abide and install refs to enforce the rules that don't need to exist for any reason whatsoever. Forcing yourself to play by rules that your opponents

Mr. Good Faith Discovers Bad Faith, Then Doesn't

Mr. Good Faith Discovers Bad Faith, Then Doesn't

Jon Stewart, as America's rising tide of fascism became highly visible during the 2010 midterm election cycle, appealed for logic and compromise. He urged a detached approach to combatting the right's firehose of bad-faith politics. He wondered why we couldn't all just think straight

The Democrats Don't Get It. Or Worse, Maybe They Do.

The Democrats Don't Get It. Or Worse, Maybe They Do.

Maryland, thanks to the state's Democratic Party, is one shitty election cycle away from having a true-blue fascist in the governor's mansion. As a lifelong Marylander, I don't love it. In fact, I hate it. The state's Democratic machine spent millions to