Denny Carter

I didn't plan on tearing into an elderly woman when I left the house Tuesday afternoon to vote in Maryland's primary elections. The plan was to glide in and out of my local precinct, cast votes for the least detestable gubernatorial and state legislative and school

If you're like me and get a strange pleasure from drowning in dystopian political developments every hour of every day, we should talk. As a bonus for those who have so graciously supported Bad Faith Times over these past sixty days, I'm giving access to a

By 1991, nearly a quarter century after he became the first Black Supreme Court justice, the venerable Thurgood Marshall saw the coming right-wing takeover of the courts for what it was: A legal coup powered by an entirely bad-faith interpretation of the U.S. Constitution that would – one day – allow

For a long time, after a bunch of people were blown to pieces by a guy with an assault rifle engineered to do maximum damage to the frail human body, conservatives have solemnly talked about mental health, usually in the most vague terms possible. Ted Cruz or Greg Abbott or

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My existential terror and spine-crushing dread lifted for a moment and I was, for once, hopeful. Ben Jealous, a fierce advocate for civil rights and the former head of the NAACP, was running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in my home state of Maryland in 2018, four years after Republican