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Bernie’s Gleaming Good Faith Exposes the Right’s Wretched Bad Faith

Bernie’s Gleaming Good Faith Exposes the Right’s Wretched Bad Faith

In a political landscape ruled by good faith, Bernie Sanders’ almost adorably earnest political messaging would draw MAGA freaks to him like a tractor beam. Sanders, after running the two most important presidential campaigns in American history, is still the only major political figure (politely) raging against our brutal, soulless

Capital's Footsoldiers Will Do Anything To Fuck Over The Poor

Capital's Footsoldiers Will Do Anything To Fuck Over The Poor

House Republicans, in their bad-faith attempt to pretend they give a shit about the nation’s debt, are once again pushing the nation to the brink of financial catastrophe. Forgetting how badly this blew up in their faces during the Obama years, Republicans are refusing to raise the country'

Yes, It Is Virtue Signaling

Yes, It Is Virtue Signaling

My belief that schoolchildren should not be mowed down by automatic weapon-wielding madmen is unshakeable, unwavering. Many describe my long-held stance against mass murder in U.S. schools as "resolute." I have never once considered I could be wrong on this issue, or that I need to stop

The Heartbreaking Bad Faith of Roger Waters

The Heartbreaking Bad Faith of Roger Waters

The older, richer, more cynical dog offered counsel to the younger, greener, more idealistic dog, and I sat in my car and listened and heard the words of every adult I knew in that senior dog, and I knew I was the younger dog. I dreaded becoming his jaded, hopeless

The Bad Faith of American Meritocracy

The Bad Faith of American Meritocracy

The United States has had one constant story about itself: That it is, above all else, a land of opportunity. A true meritocracy. Anyone, regardless of where you come from, has the same opportunity to climb the metaphorical social ladder through hard work, talent, and merit. While meritocracy may seem

Everyone Is Tired Of All This Woke Shit

Everyone Is Tired Of All This Woke Shit

I like to imagine chronically online Republican staffers in frenzied meetings with lawmakers, begging and pleading with them to use the barely-coded power of “woke” in every social media post and cable TV interview and stump speech and press release and congressional address. Keep saying woke, these internet-addicted staffers say,

Our Low-Simmering Civil War

Our Low-Simmering Civil War

There’s too much good TV for there to be a real, all-out Second American Civil War. Until the never-ending stream of fantastic shows – and movies and video games and whatever other media serves as your soma – dries up, there will be no war between brothers (and sisters). No matter