Denny Carter

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

Hello to you, the good and decent Bad Faith Times reader. I'm once again fielding questions from subscribers for an upcoming post, this time related to how we talk about America's nonstop gun nightmare. I'm guessing, if you subscribe to Bad Faith Times posts,

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

Don't forget to subscribe to Bad Faith Times and get the latest in existential pain sent straight to your inbox. To watch the faces of 2016 Republican presidential candidates like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Scott Walker betray total exasperation on a debate stage

I spend so much time dissecting the nonstop torrent of conservative bad-faith politics that I find myself crying and shaking and dry heaving when I come across conservative good faith, which is – without fail – viscerally frightening. And when that nightmarish good faith bubbles to the surface of mainstream Republican politics