Denny Carter

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

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

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

Your political worldview invariably comes down to whether you think the point of politics is to be right, or to win. Being right – winning the argument, taking the crown in the so-called marketplace of ideas – has long been the goal of the American center-left. The facts will prevail, the thinking

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