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The Best of The Bulwark in 2020

F*ck 2020

The Worst. But Not Just That.

Crimes, Crises, and Coup

Adam Kinzinger: Trump is Undermining Democracy

You Should Be Angry.

Mitch is Done With Trump

Josh Hawley Is Madison Cawthorn Is Marjorie Taylor Greene

Teaching Our Merciless Racial Politics to the Next Generation

How Biden Won: Six Hard Truths

Let's Talk Solutions.

COVID Hasn't Gone Away

Kevin Kruse on 2020 as the Year of Disaster Voltron

'WW84' Reviewed; Plus: Best Movies/Shows of 2020, Chosen!

Why 'Bridgerton' Is the Show All the Ladies in Your Life Will Be Watching

How Many GOPers Will Cross The Rubicon?

Georgia Is a Quiet Place for Republicans

Rubio vs. Fauci Is Amazing

A.B. Stoddard on Explosions Within the Storm

The Useful Idiots

Trump Is Not Done Losing

Daphne's Fight Against Gangster Government

The 10 (Or So!) Best Movies of the Year

Are Things Normal Yet? No.

The United States Needs an Iran Policy—Any Iran Policy

The Treasonous Pardon of Paul Manafort

Six Things to Know about Trump’s Defense Veto

Even Trump’s Pardons Are Selfish

Bill Kristol: Why I'm Still Alarmed

The "Law & Order President" Is a Fraud

The Next Level Holiday Spectacular

What Were You Thinking?

Even Trump’s Pardons Are Selfish

The Squishiness of Federal Courts’ ‘Standing’ Doctrine

The Broad Coalition Trying to Take Down Viktor Orbán

The Ghost of Conservatism Future

The Scary Spectacle of Trump’s Last Month in Office

Trump: Endgame

Everything Is Awful: Part 2,036

Robert Tracinski on the GOP’s Flying Monkey Problem

'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' Reviewed; Plus, Barack Obama's Best-Of List Analyzed

Beauty and the Pharma Bro: The Craziest Story of the Year

The Mad King's Endgame

The Scary Spectacle of Trump’s Last Month in Office

The Military Would Not Participate in a Coup. Trump Can’t Understand Why.

Holding the House 32 Accountable

Biden Should Call for a Commission to Investigate the 2020 Election

Molly Jong-Fast on the Dark Political Winter of 2020

MAGA Marks and the Future of Democracy

Impeach Him... Again?

Biden Should Call for a Commission to Investigate the 2020 Election

Lou Dobbs Debunks Himself

The Trade: Meet the New Red Dog Democrats

The Origins of a Warning from Voltaire

Medals of Democracy

Taking 'The Stand'

The Top 10 Worst Trump-Enabling Takes of 2020

China Can’t Save Hollywood’s Box Office Bacon

GOP Crack-Up

David French: The Dangerous Radicalism of the Christian Right

Welcome to the Desert of the Real

The Notorious JOD

Trump Has Been a Superspreader Event

The Top 10 Worst Trump-Enabling Takes of 2020

Has the European Central Bank Been Handing Out Illegal Bailouts?

MAGA Mutiny in the GOP

Trump’s Last Stand

Holiday Special Livestream

Uninstalling Stephen Miller

Tim Alberta on the Fear That Binds Us

Where Is the President of the United States?

Can We Quit Trump?

Beethoven at 250: Four Masterpieces to Celebrate the Big Day

Uninstalling Stephen Miller

Inside the Epically Murky ‘Epoch Times’ Ad Campaign

Too Much Democracy Is Killing Democracy

Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy

Elizabeth Neumann: Will there be blood?

On the Bright Side!

The Nature of Power

Trump Draws The Line In GOP Civil War

Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy

The Coming Re-Employment Crisis

How Europe and the U.K. Can Reach a Fair Free Trade Deal

Biden Needs Party Unity—or Else

Everyone Trump Touches Dies: The List

Rep. Denver Riggleman on the GOP Fever of Nonsense

'Sound of Metal' Reviewed; Plus, Directors Vs. WB

The Blockbuster Is Dead, Long Live the Blockbuster

‘Songbird’ Review

Democracy Prevails. For Now.

How David Hockney Trolled the ‘New Yorker’

Biden Needs Party Unity—or Else

Never Forget the Republicans Who Held Fast

It's Not About This Election, It's About the Next One

Should Trump Be Pardoned? Should He Be Prosecuted?

Bye-Bye, Bill Barr

Exit the Spymaster

Our Independence Day

Kim Wehle on the GOP's Assault on Voting Rights

Trump Loses Again Today

Should Trump Be Pardoned? Should He Be Prosecuted?

Fixing Job-Based Health Insurance

Biden’s Defense of Democracy Can Begin in Belarus

The Democrats’ Electoral Rubik’s Cube

No, It's Not Over Yet

How the Classics Can Calm Our Nerves

Secessionists Join Republican Effort to Steal the Election

Crushed Fantasy Island

Disney+ Goes for the Jugular

Conor Lamb on the Future of the Democratic Party

Secessionists Joined the (Failed) Republican Effort to Steal the Election

Beg to Agree

The Angry Newsletter

The GOP Gives Up On Democracy

George Shultz at 100

Biden’s Secret Tape Scandal

How Three Counties Can Help Us Understand Trump’s Shellacking

What’s a Little Abuse of Power Among Friends?

State and Local Governments Need Help. Pass COVID Relief Now.

"The Big Lie" Livestream

Georgia on My Mind

Tim Miller on the Clown Coup

The Republican Party As Totalitarian State

Georgia on My Mind

Six Things You Need To Know

The “Intellectual” Right’s Assault on Democracy

YouTube Still Spreading MAGA Disinformation

Trumpism Triumphant

Mike Murphy on the Trump-Biden Transition

Trump Is Winning

Ted Cruz Is the Worst

SCOTUS to Trump: DENIED

Trumpism Triumphant

Four Steps to Restore Global Democracy

Pragmatists, Professionals, and Patriots on Biden’s National Security Team

When Chuck Yeager Caught the Demon

The Texas Attorney General’s Shameful and Stupid Attempt to Crash the Election

A.B. Stoddard: Trump Will Break the GOP

Matthew McConaughey: Radical Centrist

'Mank' Reviewed, Plus: WB Dumps Its Slate to HBO Max

Trumpism Is a Religion

When Chuck Yeager Caught the Demon

A Coup in Broad Daylight

Lloyd Austin Should Not Become Secretary of Defense

Media Ownership Rules, and Perhaps Much More, at Stake in FCC v. Prometheus

Seattle Surrenders

What If Trump Is Trying To Break the GOP?

Ted Cruz Wants to Toss Out 7 Million People’s Votes. Appalling.

David Jolly: A Third Choice for Florida?

The New Republican Man

Georgia and the GOP Future

It Shouldn't Take Courage

Weakness from Washington and Seoul Has Emboldened North Korea

What If Trump Is Trying To Break the GOP?

The GOP’s Burghers of Calais

The Devil Went Down to Georgia

The Abuser and the Terrorist

This Is Your Brain on Newsmax

Movie Theaters Were Fun While They Lasted

A Very COVID Christmas

Jonathan V. Last on the Politics of Paranoia

Can Normal Elbow Out Crazy?

All the GOP Really Cares About

This Is Your Brain on Newsmax

Moving Films to VOD Can’t Make Up the Revenue the Traditional Theatrical Model Generates

They’re Fine With It

Michael Cohen on What Trump Wants Now

"Trump Election Truthers" Livestream

Bill Barr’s Very “Special” Episode

Tim Miller vs. Charlie Sykes; Hope vs. Despair

If This Is a Crisis, Then Act Like It

The Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

Bill Barr’s Very “Special” Episode

The Trump Pardon Spree

The End of an Era—or the Beginning of One?

Vaccines Don’t Protect People. Vaccination Does.

My Call With Ron Johnson: He Knows Biden Won But Won’t Admit It

The Fire Rises

A Man Stands Up

Josh Kraushaar on the Senate Suicide Squeeze

The Madness That Grips The Right

Putting the Iran Assassinations in Context

My Call With Ron Johnson: He Knows Biden Won But Won’t Admit It

The Hard Facts on Hard Time

How Trump Hurt America’s Reputation for Truth

Mentally Seceding from the Union

Amanda Carpenter on the Propaganda Party

Sympathy for the Devil

'Let Him Go' Reviewed, Plus: A Box Office Rebirth?

Critics vs. Audiences on 'Hillbilly Elegy'

Hanging Up On Trump

Mentally Seceding from the Union

The Real Reason to Nix Section 230

The ‘Kraken’ Lawsuit Was Released...

Trump Lawyer: Former DHS Senior Official Should Be Executed

The Flavors of Crazy

David Priess: Biden Gets His Briefing

A Taxonomy of Trump's New Trutherism

Six Steps for a Bipartisan Foreign Policy

The GOP Is a Propaganda Party

School Closings (Probably) Work

The ‘Kraken’ Lawsuit Was Released And It’s Way Dumber Than You Realize

A Thankful Media Consumer

Tom Nichols on Shaming the Fanatics

How to Use Anti-KKK Laws to Go After Trump

This Is How Biden Can Lead with Science

Why You Should Buy an OLED on Black Friday

There’s No War on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 2020 Sucks. And We Should Be Thankful For It Anyway.

Trump’s Embarrassingly Bad Legal Case in Pennsylvania

A Defense of "Normal"

Mona Charen: Why We Should be Thankful

Dark Thanksgiving

Dumbing Down The Senate

Sia's Casting Controversy — or Nontroversy?

Hillbilly Elegy Reviewed; WW84 to HBO Max

Trump’s Embarrassingly Bad Legal Case in Pennsylvania

Trump’s GOP is Increasingly Racist and Authoritarian...

The GOP Isn't Dead Yet

Berny Belvedere on Truth in the Age of Trump

Trump Caves

Trump’s GOP is Increasingly Racist and Authoritarian—and Here to Stay

Summit for Democracy: Go Big

The Most Predictable Global Financial Crisis

Kim Wehle on Trump's Legal End Game

Why Won't Republicans Take the Next Step?

Release the Kraken!

Will The GOP Be Married To 2020 Trutherism?

The Most Predictable Global Financial Crisis

The Centrist Rush to Blame the Left for the Closer-Than-Expected Election

Goodbye To All That

What President Biden Should Do about Hong Kong

Can We Get Along Together After Trump?

Wonder Woman Heads to HBO Max

When Do We Draw a Line in the Sand?

Tim Miller on Trump's Insane Coup

Banana Republicans

A Clown With a Flamethrower

Can We Get Along Together After Trump?

The Real “America First” Foreign Policy Starts Now

How to Wage an Ideological Conflict with China

The Future of the GOP Livestream

Taking Giuliani’s Insane, Un-American Press Conference Seriously

COVID: Endgame

Brendan Buck: Georgia On My Mind

Taking Giuliani’s Insane, Un-American Press Conference Seriously

Lame Ducks

The Easiest Off-Ramp

The Pandemic Is Now McConnell’s Problem, Too

Trump Goes Out as He Came In

The Marketing Theory Which Explains Why Trump Owns the GOP

Let’s Make a Deal to Roll Back Executive Power

Don't Call It a Coup!

ETTD: Catholic Edition

A.B. Stoddard: What Happens Now in the Senate

Performative Jerkitude

Let’s Make a Deal to Roll Back Executive Power

What a President Biden Could Do with a GOP-Controlled Senate

Raffensperger to the Rescue

Lindsey Graham Is the Worst

They Are What They Say They Hate

Eric Edelman on What Biden Will Inherit

Democrats: Be Afraid

When Tossing Votes Is Your Go-To Tactic

What Biden Can Learn from Trump on China

Pompeo Plays Favorites in the Georgia Runoffs

The Week Democracy Pushed Back

They Are What They Say They Hate

The Grim Pandemic Outlook for Fall and Winter

Meet the New Conservatives

How the Toddler in Chief Failed to Steal the Election

Anti- Anti- Anti- Trump

Trump's Unreality Check

Five Foreign Policy “Don’ts” for President Biden

With ‘Missionaries,’ Phil Klay Looks at the Wounds of War

The Grim Pandemic Outlook for Fall and Winter

Lessons from the Vaccine Revolt of 1904

Trump’s Pentagon: No Place for Good Men

Trump’s Men in Moscow

Pfizer’s Art of the Deal

'Hillbilly Elegy' Reviewed

It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn

Benjamin Wittes on the High Water Mark of Delusion

Decapitating the DOD and other cheery thoughts

What Could Possibly Go Wrong Today?

Friday the 13th in TrumpWorld

Pfizer’s Art of the Deal

Save the Uighurs. Boycott China.

Caucasus Peace Deal Is a Success for Putin, Failure for Trump

Biden vs. Block Booking

‘Karens’ and ‘Dream Hoarders’ Swung the Election to Biden

2020 finally pays off for someone.

Amanda Carpenter: Trump Gaslights America Again

Good Luck "Moving On," Republicans

Does The GOP Have An Exit Strategy?

Budget Deficits Still Matter

#NeverTrump #Winning

The Lame-Duck Massacre

Alarmism

David Priess on Trump’s Damaging Transition

Debbie Downer

The Lame-Duck Massacre

Trump's Post-Election Fever Swamp

Trump’s Election Mess, in the Eyes of the World

Republicans Continue to Cower Under Phony Strongman

There Is No Return to Normalcy

How to Make Biden’s COVID Task Force Better

Relax, Cousins

Adam J. White: Trump's Farewell Fiasco

A Crisis Is Unfolding, Right Now

Bill Barr’s Election Memo: Justice Delayed

The Day After Tomorrow

How Alarmed Should We Be?

Relax, Cousins

Donald Trump’s Last (?) Big Lie

Trump’s Farewell Fiasco

Be Alarmed

The Warning Lights Are Still Flashing Red

Victory Lap?

This Is The Way It Ends

The Revenge of John McCain and John Lewis

Trump’s Farewell Fiasco

Spiritual Warriors on Behalf of Donald Trump

Martha McSally, Arizonans Are Just Not That into You

Alex Trebek, 1940-2020

Come Join Our Post Election Livestream

V-T Day Livestream, TONIGHT!

A Good Man for a Wounded Country

He's Fired

Those Obama-Trump Counties

An Embarrassing Presidential Display That Will Live in Infamy

What Might a Biden Admin Look Like for Showbiz?

Josh Kraushaar and Amanda Carpenter: Will Trump Ever Concede?

The Sickness of Republicans and Conservatism Inc.

Nearly There

An Embarrassing Presidential Display That Will Live in Infamy

The Lies from the Trump White House are Getting Desperate

Joe Biden: POTUS 46

Abuses and Lies Till the Bitter End

Trump, the Pathetic Loser

Tim Miller: Is it Over?

The Home Stretch

America To Trump: You're Fired

Abuses and Lies Till the Bitter End

The Day After...

Finish the Fight

Bill Kristol and Mona Charen on the Morning After

All of Trump’s Anti-Democratic Attacks Have Failed—So Far

The Morning After

The Problem of the Male Voter

America's Hangover

The Day After

The State of the Nation

Will the American Fever at Last Break?

Join Our Election Night Livestream!

Hope Dies Last

Kevin Williamson on the Case Against Trump

The Final Countdown

Come Drink with Us on Election Night

It's Here.

Day Of Decision

Back to Basics: Make Cocktails Normal Again

Hope Dies Last

“Law & Order” in Donald Trump’s America

To My Fellow George W. Bush Supporters

We Have To Get Along with Each Other

David Byler on the First and Last ‘Emerging Democratic Majority’

To The Brink

"Law & Order" in Donald Trump's America

The Dangerous Interregnum

What to Watch for on Election Night—and Beyond

November Surprise: Trump to Fire Fauci After Election

Special Sunday Newsletter: Brace Yourself

Final Predictions

Sean Connery, 1930-2020

Trump Co-Opts Mexican Holiday with Proclamation Demonizing Illegal Immigrants

Untangling Faith and Love of Country

Classical Music Isn’t Elitist

The Fruits of Trump’s Arrogant Pride and Twisted Love of Fame

Help the Hillbillies—and Help Them Help Themselves

Getting Better at Getting Better

Trump the Fly-Catcher

Voter Suppression and Civic Vice

The Trouble with the ‘It’s Not Real Fascism’ Argument

Trump DOJ Accused of Trying to Commandeer Walmart Pharmacists

If You Can’t Hold It, You Don’t Own It

Binary Choices and False Choices

Last Call

RIP GOP?

Trump DOJ Accused of Trying to Commandeer Walmart Pharmacists

Tim Miller on Trump's Extremely Online Campaign

Revisiting 'The Wicker Man'

The October Non-Surprise

The Breathtaking Hypocrisy of Rudy Giuliani

Cleaning Up Trump’s Immigration Mess

Hannity, Tucker, and Me

You're Fired?

Come Join Our Pre-Election Nerd Fest

Me, Joe, and the Worst Phone Call in the World

Will Saletan on Why Character Matters After All

Who Cons the Con-Man?

Me, Joe, and the Worst Phone Call in the World

Election Preview: Snapchat Edition

Will There Be Blood?

The Conservative Case for Biden’s Foreign Policy

Trump’s Attack on the Civil Service System

The Keenly Felt Loss of Local Newspapers

The Pro-life Case Against Trump

Why Women Hate Trump

God Save the Electoral College

Bill Kristol on Our Three Possible Outcomes

The Trump Superspreader Tour Is Amazing

Trump's Karmic Fiasco

The Desperate Hypocrisy of the Trump Legal Clean-Up Crew

Where Do We Go from Here?

Getting Past Partisan Blinders

Why Women Hate Trump

A Tale of Three Possible Outcomes

The Secret Life of Republican Man

Amanda Carpenter on The Loyalty Death Cult

Give in to the hate, young Jedi.

The Middle Finger Election

A Tale of Three Possible Outcomes

Who Wants to Give Italy a Free Loan?

Trump as a Champion of ‘Bourgeois Values’? Not So Fast.

When the QAnon Apocalypse Doesn’t Come

Trump’s Legacy is COVID and QAnon

John Heilemann on the Final Days of the Election

Is Texas Going Blue?

Our War Time President Surrenders To COVID

Trump’s Legacy is COVID and QAnon

How Trump Could Still Pull It Off

What’s Going on with Republican Women?

Five Trump-Era Ideas That Should End with His Presidency

Why Christians Should Dump Trump

What We Can Learn from the Confusion About ‘Handmaids’

A Message for Reluctant Trumpers of Good Faith

TrumpWorld's Last Stand

Beyond the Debate: Trump Is Running on Empty

HBO vs. Roku

Band of Brothers

Closing Argument? What Closing Argument?

Tim Miller on Trump's Bobulinski Gambit

Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Dogs of War

Donald Trump is Finished

Beyond the Debate: Trump Is Running on Empty

‘Right Stuff’ In Name Only

Turkey Is Distancing Itself from NATO

Final Debate Livestream

Trump Doesn't Poop Pants; “Wins” Debate

Trump’s “Unfair” Closing Argument

Madison Cawthorn’s Racist Website

Madison Cawthorn’s Racist Website

Mike Murphy on the Final Debate

Trump Is Toast

The Polls Make Sense

Rudy's Junk

Donald Trump Ruined Conservatism. Don’t Let Him Ruin Patriotism.

Kristen Welker’s Debate Dilemma

A Message to Democrats from Your New Ally

Secretly, the 2020 Election Is About Health Care

Biden’s Refreshing Boringness

These People Should Be Held Accountable

Trump Got Scammed By His Own Campaign

Mark Salter on John McCain, Romantic and Cynic

United States of Anxiety

Fifty Trillion Reasons Why

The Internationalized Culture War Is a Gift to China and Russia

Biden’s Refreshing Boringness

Sending Signals of Support for Tibet

The Moral Necessity of Accountability for Civil Disobedience

Is Iowa About to Flip?

Benjamin Wittes on Bill Barr’s Dilemma

Trump's Vaporware Vaccine

The Moral Necessity of Accountability for Civil Disobedience

Trump's Closing Argument

Candidate Kanye’s Call for a More Godly America

Where the Fight for the Senate Stands Today

The Donald Trump Show Must Go On

Trump vs. Fauci

What’s So Bad About Trump’s Tweets

Conservative Make-Believe

Pete Buttigieg and A.B. Stoddard on the Known Unknowns of the 2020 Election

The GOP Becomes The Party Of Q

Learning the Right Lessons from the Trump Experience

What's So Bad About Trump's Tweets

Too Late For The GOP

Pay Attention to Who Trump Spends His Time "Fighting"

Late Stage Trumpism

Et Tu, Disne? Or: Why Disney Can’t Quit Theatrical Just Yet

Emo Election Talk

Revenge of the Vichycons

Home Stretch

Bill Kristol on Late Stage Trumpism

Mr. Rogers vs. Your Crazy Uncle

In a World Without Movie Theaters …

The Conservative Push for a Social Media “Fairness Doctrine” is Pure Fantasy

Biden Must Stiff-Arm the Court-Packers

Kelly Loeffler: Lifestyles of the Rich and Classless

Watch Our Post-Town Hall Livestream

A Crusade for Something Noble

Spend. More. Money.

Kim Wehle on the Voting Tsunami

Trump's Luck Has Run Out

A Crusade for Something Noble

How Trump Sealed the GOP’s Suicide

Mike Lee and the Illiberal Chic

Brazil’s Public Spending Problem Is a Warning for Us All

Scaredy Trump Ducks Debate: MAGA Media Hardest Hit

Defining Deviancy Down

Mona Charen Makes the Case for Optimism

Warning Sign: West Virginia

It's Harvest Time on the Conspiracy Theory Farm!

A Tsunami of Trumpian Crazy

Breaking News: Not Everything Is Terrible

What Do We Do About Voter Intimidation?

Defining Deviancy Down

Trump's Great "Unmasking" Hoax Is Finally Dead

The Coronavirus Is Killing Democracy

Amanda Carpenter on Trump’s COVID Kiss

The Last Days of the Trump Scampaign

Trump's Depraved Indifference

Academic Freedom Is a Key American Advantage over China

The Coronavirus Is Killing Democracy

The Trouble with Trump’s Gag Orders

Obama-Trump Voters Say the Darndest Things!

These Seven Counties Are Trump's Key to Reelection. They're Going Badly for Him.

Our Abiding Quarrel with Russia

What a Biden Landslide Would Look Like

Tom Nichols on Trump and Superman

Packing the Court?

Who's Up For Some Court Packing?

Our Abiding Quarrel with Russia

Make Anti-Communism Great Again

Fixing the Big Tech Bad Apples

Storm Warnings

Undecideds

How Influential Was Eddie Van Halen?

Trump’s Captain Queeg Crackup

The Trumpist Death Cult

The Unfairness Never Ends

Studios Have Screwed Theaters

Bill Kristol on Trump's End Game

Trump's Closing Argument: The Unfairness Never Ends

Roid Rage

The Tyranny of the Majority Is a Real Thing

Trump Saves The Worst For Last

Invisible Wounds

The Big Supreme Court Cases to Watch for This Fall

Trump is the Wizard of Oz—Only Nuts

Winning By Not Losing

Jim Swift on Meltdowns with Maria Bartiromo

Mike Pence Is the Future. God Help Us.

Post Post-Debate

The Last Debate

Harris Won By Not Losing

Pence Flubbed the Civics 101 Question

The VP Post-Debate Debrief

The Indefensible Mike Pence

Who Are These Republicans?

McSally Flops in Only Arizona Senate Debate

Got Dex?

Josh Kraushaar on the GOP's Down-ballot Problem

How COVID Kills the Economy

A Presidency in Freefall

Who Are These Republicans?

How a Second Trump Term Could Degrade Democracy

Art of the Crazy: Trump’s Insane Twitter Negotiations

Ask These 3 Questions at the VP Debate

The Flaw in the Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Andrew Weissmann on Where Law Ends

Is Trump Experiencing Drug-Induced Mania?

The Worst Photo-op Ever

The Flaw in the Twenty-Fifth Amendment

The Truth About Trump’s COVID Test Timeline

The Weirdest 90 Seconds in Presidential History

Stop Telling Joe Biden What to Do

Amanda Carpenter and David Priess on the COVID Joy Ride

The Truth About Trump's COVID Test Timeline

Where Does Joe Biden Go to Get His Apology?

A Note From Wisconsin

The Transformation of Mike Pompeo

The European Central Bank Can’t Save the European Economy by Itself

Trump’s Battle with COVID Can Bring Us Together

Meet the Swing Voters Who Embrace Conspiracy Theories

#SuperSpreaderStrong

For Those Feeling Discouraged: There Are No Lost Causes

The Other Democratic Party

Trump’s Diagnosis and the Election

Should Congress Okay a Theater Bailout?

Tim Miller on the Reckless White House

Debating a Drunk Gorilla

What Happens Now?

Trump’s Diagnosis and the Election

Outbreak

Trump's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Trump Caused This

The Clock Is Ticking for Mattis and Kelly to Speak Out

What Trump Said and What the Proud Boys Heard

Why RBG as Icon Should Bother Everyone

The Virus Comes For Trump: Now What?

What Trump 2016 Swing-State Voters Had to Say About the Debate

David Byler Breaks Down the 2020 Polls

America Has a Militia Problem

Disputandum Vox Populi

How You Know Trump Lost The Debate

Three Errors About Trump (and An Encouraging Truth)

Reaching the ‘Bannon Line’

The "Very Fine People" President

The Worst Debate Takes

Listen to What Trump 2016 Swing-State Voters Had to Say About the Debate

WTF Was That?

The Problem Is Not on "Both Sides"

David Jolly and Will Saletan Dissect the First Debate

The Worst Debate Takes

"Will You Shut Up, Man"

Biden Won the Debate. America Lost.

The World’s Brokest “Billionaire”

The Post-Debate Debrief

No More Debates

The President Is a Sociopath. And 60 Million Americans Like It.

Just Shut Up, Man

What About the Dingell-Norwood Bill?

Jonathan Allen: Why the Debate May Matter

This—Right Now—Is What Collapse Looks Like

The Presidential Thunderdome

Joe Biden and the Ghost of RBG

The Most Important Election of Our Lifetimes (Or Not)

Reflections of an Ex-Debate Prepper

Trump Can't Take Ohio for Granted

Can We Stop America’s Free Fall?

Someone's Got a Case of the Mondays

Kim Wehle: How Bad Could It Get?

Like a Rat in a Trap

Only Little People Pay Taxes

They Went Full Malkin. You Never Go Full Malkin.

Can We Stop America’s Free Fall?

Make It About the Election

Trump Tax Returns Show He’s a Populist Fraud

The Realistic Nightmare Scenario

What Would the Gipper Do?

How The Wisconsin GOP Lost Its Mind

Spoilers No More: The Decline and Decline of Third-Party Candidates

Meet the African-American Voters Joe Biden Desperately Needs

Did Joe Biden Really Call Our Troops "Stupid Bastards?"

A Year Without Marvel

The Question I Asked Trump That Blew Up the Week

Is Lindsey Graham Literally the Worst Person in the World?

Peaceful Transition?

Bill Kristol on RBG and What is to Be Done

Peaceful Transition lulz

Scenes from a Supreme Court Focus Group

The Problem With MAGA Cops

Will We Heed Tocqueville’s Warnings?

Vaccine Victimhood

How the Fear of Authoritarianism Is Breaking American Politics

Trump’s Russophilia Has Become Intelligence Policy

Even a Small Chance of Calamity Should Be Taken Seriously

What Do You Want Republicans To Do?

Josh Kraushaar: Take A Deep Breath

What Is To Be Done?

Nightmare Nation

Donald the TruCon

Trump’s Desperate, Extraconstitutional, and Probably Illegal Ploy to Lower Drug Prices

Resurrecting the Refugee Resettlement Program

Donald Trump’s Bizarre History Conference

The Strongman Cometh

Trump Even Screwed Up the TikTok Sale

The Sum of All Fears

David French on 'Divided We Fall'

2020 Has Achieved Criticality

200,000 Somebodies

Donald Trump’s Bizarre History Conference

McConnell’s Only Principle Is Power

200,000 Dead Isn’t a Statistic. It’s a Tragedy.

President Trump’s Unpatriotic ‘Patriotic Education’

The SCOTUS Vote Is a Sign of Republican Weakness

Tim Miller on the Tyranny of the Minority

A GOP Advantage on SCOTUS? Maybe Not.

Charity and Medicine Adapting to COVID

To Counter China, We Must Strengthen Ties with Europe

Can Gen Z Save Us? Only with Adult Partners.

The Absentee President

This Isn't "Hypocrisy"

Amanda Carpenter on Mitch McConnell's Calculation

After RBG

No Decent Interval

The Absentee President

How Biden Will Handle the Supreme Court Vacancy

Tyranny of the minority

But No One!

Save the Vote, Save the Court

Special Edition: What Happens After RBG?

RBG And The Coming Crisis

Mitch McConnell’s Calculation

Why We Love to Talk Like Pirates

William Barr's Disastrous Misunderstanding of the Attorney General's Role

Justice Ginsburg: A Model of Civility

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Coming Political Crisis

What In Conservatism Should Be Conserved?

What Is Netflix, Exactly?

How Can a Voter Be "Undecided" About Trump?

JVL on the Biden Townhall and Bulwark+

If Trump Loses, Should We Lock Him Up?

It's Almost Like There's A Pattern

What In Conservatism Should Be Conserved?

Don’t Let Iran Get Away with Murder

Why Sweden Should Join NATO

Dress for Success, Even in Distress

You Are Not Batman

Focus Group Insanity

What Happened to Conservatism?

Robert Tracinski on Flight 93 and the Future of the Right

Four Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse

Welcome to Bulwark+

You’re Not Batman

What a Post-Trump Conservative Coalition Should Look Like

The Price of Peace

The Campus Surveillance State

The Debates Will Be LIT

Charlotte Alter on How Conspiracies Are Shaping This Election

"Herd Mentality"

What Is "Legitimacy"?

The Arab World’s Long, Slow Turn Away from Anti-Zionism

The European Central Bank Is Running Out of Options

The ‘Democrats Made Me Do It’ Excuse

Are the Presidential Candidate Intelligence Briefings in Danger?

Should We Prosecute Trump?

All The President's Nuts

The Not-So-Soft Bigotry of COVID Indifference

The Dragon Rises

Will Trump’s GOP Turn the Election into a Sham?

The Anti-Flight 93 Election

S.V. Dáte on Trump, Florida, and the Military

Woodward Changes . . . Everything? Or Nothing?

Defending Trump Is a Crappy Job

Some Things Matter, After All

Trump’s Reckless, Atrocious, Deceitful Rally

Breaking Points

Trump’s Too-Little, Too-Late Evictions Order

Trump Is Building His Wall Out of Red Tape

When it Comes to the Midwest, Polls Aren't Everything

Make Profanity Great Again

New Polling Shows Theater Owners Should Be Scared

Fear is the theater killer

9/11, COVID, and Us

The Hotel Rwanda Hero Is the Latest Victim of Transnational Repression

Can Lebanon Be Fixed?

How 9/11 Changed America’s Relationship with the World

Tim Miller and Tom Ridge on the Woodward Tapes and the Election

The Worst Part of Woodward

Trump Says He Wanted to Avoid COVID Panic—But Panic Is His Whole Shtick

Bob Woodward and the Nihilism of "LOL Nothing Matters" Republicans

Worker-Focused Pandemic Relief Was a Success

Trump’s Desperate DOJ Dodge on Defamation

The Coming Biden Landslide

The Debates Won't Matter Either

We Have a Secret

The Coming COVID Vax Wars

The Oscars Diversity Misdirection

O Beautiful for . . . Pilgrim Feet?

Nixon's Deal With the Devil

How Stuck Is Trump?

American Conservatism, b. 1955, d. 2020?

The State of the Race

How We Might Get This Wrong (Again)

Property Is People

Make Democracy Attractive Again

Get Ready for the Foreign-Ballot Conspiracy

It’s Not (Just) About Competence

Trump Is Trying to Lose in Syria

Who Will Speak for the Uighurs?

Donald Trump Is the Trojan Horse

Cory Gardner Is What "Party Over Country" Looks Like

Cory Gardner and the Toxic Republican Party

'Tenet' Review

'Tenet' Reviewed

Losers versus Winners, Suckers versus Killers

Trump’s Divisiveness and Our Consciences

The Lazy Lies of President Chaos

Institutions and the Crises of 2020

“Opportunity Zones” Don’t Actually Work

Why Are So Many Republican Elites Supporting Biden?

Takeaways From One of the Biggest Polling Days of the Year

Trump’s Racist Referendum

It’s Still All About Russia—and It’s Outrageous

How Big Tech Kept Me From Selling Masks

Trump Does Kenosha

America Is a Powder Keg

The Grand Old Conspiracy Party

Europe’s Banks Are Not Ready for the Coronavirus Recession

The Broken Windows Presidency

Don’t Shut Up and Dribble

The Disorderly Contested Election That Changed American History

Tim Miller on Kenosha and Biden

The Trump Show

Why China's Censorship of Western Art Matters

Trump Has Captured the CDC

The Essence of Late Stage Trumpism

Trump's New Conspiracy Theory

Biden, Trump and the Science—or Instinct—of Persuasion

We Need to Prepare Better for Crises

Where Are the Defenders of Democracy?

Our Civil War Pre-Enactment

Hey. You. Sit Down and Shut Up.

Speak for America!

Trump's Season Of Chaos

The Pathetic Both-Sidesism of Republican Inc.

The Chaos President Has America in Chaos

Demagoguery in America

China's Censorship of Western Art Needs to Be Confronted and Combated

“America First” is a Lie

The Other Side of the College Reopening Story

Those Were the Days

What Does Biden Have To Do to Show He’s Tough on Riots?

No Platform. Trump All The Way Down.

We're Not All In This Together, Are We?

International Conservatism Needs Trump to Lose

RNC 2020: Virtual Unreality

Who Was Trump Talking To?

Biden Needs a Sister Souljah Month

America's Dark Moment

Is Kenosha a Warning for the Biden Campaign?

Why This Pro-Life Conservative Is Voting for Biden

Pompeo’s RNC Speech Was Worse Than You Thought

Who Cares if Trump ‘Accepts’ the Election? Not the Constitution.

Putin’s Poison

A Convention Reality Check

The Power of Positive Thinking: Too Much and Never Enough

How the Fight for Women’s Suffrage Was Won

The Degradation of Democratic Norms Here Makes It Harder to Promote Them Abroad

Democracy without Integrity Is Impossible

The Two Trumps

Wisconsin Is a Microcosm. Again.

Behind the Cynical Stunt to Impeach Ohio’s Governor

A Party without a Platform

For Today’s GOP, the Power Is the Point

How to Take (Some of) the Politics Out of Judges’ Retirements

‘RESOVLVED’: The Zoom Kool-Aid Convention

Box Office Data Is Back, Baby

The GOP's Absurdist Convention

Trump’s Bad Bet on the Politics of Fear

Get Ready for a Week of Unhinged Attacks on Biden and Harris

Five Major Speeches from Past Republican Conventions

How the Republican Party We’ll See This Week Became Donald Trump’s

Theaters Are Back — But Are They Safe?

Trump’s Self-Defeating Attacks on the FDA

How Putin Took Over Russia

Protecting the Products of Liberty

‘Donald Trump Has Failed Our Country’

Re-Canonize the Hughes Brothers

We Worried Trump Would Endanger the U.S.

What Did Biden Just Do?

What Are We Saving?

Joe Biden’s Virtual Triumph

Playing Kanye as a Black Voter Trump Card Is Betting on a Losing Hand

Get Ready for Anti-Anti-QAnon

Bannon Grifter Indictment: More Steel Bracelets for Team Trump

Our QAnon President

Miles Taylor Took Trump Seriously

The American Dream Is Not Dead

How to Put 170,000 COVID Deaths in Perspective

Trump and Snowden's War on Proper Authority

Bill Clinton: The Lion in Summer

Cindy McCain and Colin Powell on one side. Laura Loomer on the other.

Paying the Bill for the Pandemic-Related Unemployment Benefits

The Post Office Scandal is Either Stupid or Evil, Your Choice

What If Donald Trump Is What America Needed?

Government Must Not Assign a Coronavirus Vaccine By Race

The Biden-Harris Logo Is Meh

The 6 Biggest Moments from Day 1 of the Democratic Convention

Pro-Democracy Protests Expose GOP’s Hypocrisy as Trump Remains Silent

Motion Smoothing Is an Abomination

Democrats Have Five Tipping Points

The Zombie Conventions

A Sweltering Pandemic Summer

The Making of Stephen Miller

Biden’s Policy Agenda Is Bold But Not Radical

Belarus Protests: U.S. and EU Must Act Now

Love and Loyalty in the “Liberalocracy”

Unplug from the Matrix

Can 3D Save Movies?

Can the GOP Avoid the Fate of World Championship Wrestling?

The Revolution of Bernard Bailyn

Natural Born Citizens

The Agony of the Anti-Anti-Trumpers

Trump Tries to Grab Credit for Israel-UAE Deal

‘Boys State’ Review

Ralph Reed’s ‘Christian Case for Trump’ Fails to Convince

Joe Biden: Puppet of the Progressive Left?

Kamala Harris Is the Birthright Citizenship Candidate

Republicans Fly Their Freak Flag

Qwazy for QAnon

COVID-19 and the Costs of Unsteady Administration

Europe Needs a Hamiltonian Moment

What If Trump Declared an Election Emergency?

Trump’s Q Endorsement

The World Is Burning. And America Is AWOL.

Team Trump Hasn’t Figured Out How to Attack Kamala

‘Hamilton’ Was Huge for Disney+

Did Trump Get Owned by China?

What the Kamala Harris Pick Says About the Biden Campaign

Why Kamala Harris?

Donald Trump and Clay Travis, Together At Last

Election Countdown Diary: Day 84

Belarus Is About to Explode

Congress AWOL on National Security

A Brief History of the Future

The Models Got COVID Right

COVID Kills College Football Season

Election Countdown Diary: Day 85

The Ravings of Mad King Trump

What a Weeks-Long ‘Election Night’ Might Look Like

PEN Report Details China’s Malign Influence on Hollywood

Political Polarization Has Hit Medicine, Too

What if It's All Burned Down Already?

Trump Has a Pen and a Phone

Europe's Last Dictator Is in Trouble

Jerry Falwell’s Zipper Has Been Down for Years

Identity Politics Conservatism

What the Heck Is Disney Doing with Mulan and Disney Plus?

Trump Saying Biden Would ‘Hurt the Bible’ and ‘Hurt God’ is the Height of Hypocrisy

Avoiding Hooverville: Why We Need to Extend and Reform Pandemic Unemployment Insurance

Trump Got Bored with Venezuela

What’s Left To Conserve?

The Hatch Act Is for Suckers

A Spineless Tennessee Republican’s Shiv

Biden’s Shortlist Has Big Risks

How to Steal an Election

Low-Energy Trump

Beholding Trump in Full

What Are Allies Good For, Anyway?

The Declaration Under Siege

The Case for Not Burning It All Down

Can Joe Biden Stay in His Sweet Spot?

Trumpvangelicals in the Lion’s Den

Trump’s Unreality Forcefield

Caesar on the Hudson

Wilford Brimley, RIP

The Unbearable Lightness of Peggy Noonan

‘The Craziness Is Exhausting People’

The Blind Oracle of Noonan

The New Network

Erdogan’s Egregious Economic Experiment

Political Junkies Are Killing Our Democracy

The Show Must Go On

The Movie Theater Is Dead

Trump Is the One Who Wants to Burn It All Down

Trump’s Difficulty Paying Respect to John Lewis

Trump Just Made the Election About Democracy Itself

Trumpers Know Comedy and It’s Making Us Nervous

Social Media Is the Problem

The Violence Is the Point

Congress’s COVID Opportunity

Trump’s Election-Date Tweet Is a Classic Gaslighting Move

Burn It All Down, Redux

Where Does Joe Biden Go to Get His Apology?

Texas Idiocracy

Taking Up Trump’s Sec. 230 Petition Would Be a Mistake

Trump’s Unconstitutional Census

The Ghost of Mike Dukakis

Your VP Derby Hot Sheet

The Fragile Vaccine Plan to Save the World

How the NFL Could Help Rename Military Bases

The GOP Needs to Hit Rock Bottom

Bill Barr Was Worse Than You Thought

Three Tests for the Future of the Republican Party

Let Them Expense Cake!

Electoral ‘Chaos’ in Pennsylvania?

Crises Can Define Presidencies

Trump Torched the GOP. A Business Leader Could Rebuild It.

Donald Trump vs. Democracy

The Wear Masks So Your City Can See ‘Tenet’ Challenge

Third Parties, Political Purity, and “Throwing Away Your Votes”

The Authenticity Trap

The Dismal International Response to China’s Gulags

Welcome to Screen Time

The Biggest Takeaway from Trump’s Barstool Suck-Up Session

100 Days Out from the Election, Immigration is on the Ballot

Trump's Magical Thinking Runs Into Reality, Again

Hillsdale Must Join the National Reckoning on Race

Biden’s VP Pick: The Case for Competence

Should Bill Barr Be Disbarred?

Why Can't Trump Land a Punch?

What the Conservative Version of Cancel Culture Looks Like

Will Spain Be the Next Country in Need of a Bailout?

What Are Trump’s Odds, Really?

Not Bigger, But Better

Trump's New Ad Is Amazing

Trump is Right

Income Injustice

The Theory of A.T. (After Trump)

Data, Principles, and Dodges

Trump Wants More Lafayette Parks

Donald Trump Is Weak on China

Where Progressives and the Alt-Right Meet

Mike Pompeo Has Given Up Being Secretary of State

Trump Can’t Take the Punches

Trump Just Lit the Fuse on the Most Dangerous Constitutional Crisis in a Century

Courting Lawlessness

What We Know, and Don't Know, About Portland and the DHS

How the Portland Secret Police Happened

About Trump’s Fox News Interview

Closed America: The Decline of Christian Refugees

John Lewis, 1940-2020

Trump's Path to 270 Is REALLY Hard

Get Ready for the 2020 Election Recount

Calculating Climate Costs

America First Means America Alone

The End of Magical Thinking on COVID-19

Trumpism Corrupts: Wall Street Journal Edition

Remember Brexit?

The Myth of Trump as a Centrist Dealmaker

The Return of Independent Counsels?

Anti-Anti-Cancel Culture

Listening to Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss Was Too Honest for the New York Times

The Odds Have Caught Up with Trump

Elder Abuse at the White House

The End of the Faucian Bargain

Presidential Pardons and the Spirit of Clemency

Is the Republican Party a Lost Cause?

The Tale of Vindman and Stone

Joe Biden Should Not Mess with Texas

Dr. Fauci Was Doomed from the Start

Is the U.S. Covertly Attacking Iran?

Trump Is Cornered. Here’s Why.

Ten Ways to (Actually) Drain the Swamp

Trump’s Commutation Corruption

The Neoprogressive Moment and What to Do With It

Trump’s Tax-Case Loss Is a Victory for the Rule of Law

The Filthy Air

Iran and the Murder of a Respected Iraqi Security and Politics Analyst

Tammy Duckworth and the Trump Trap

What Women Want

Democracy Is No Game

Why Not Abolish the Police Unions?

No, Teens Are Not Having ‘Coronavirus Parties’

Putin’s Sham Vote

What Statues Really Mean

Now is the Time to Stand with Dreamers

The Conspiracy Theorist Trump Wants to Install in the Pentagon

College Football in a Pandemic—and What It Could Mean for the Election

Trump's War on the Press Is a War on All of Us

The Racial Tribulations of Trump Agonistes

The Trump Digital Operation Isn't Trying to Win the Election

Supreme Court Rules States Can Punish ‘Faithless Electors’

Charlie Kirk, Trump’s Pied Piper

The Race-Hustler-in-Chief

What the Hell Are We Doing About Schools?

Was Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech Divisive?

Old, White, and Right: The Politics of The Villages

Trump's "National Garden of American Heroes" Is Vaporware

Trump's Presidency Is About to Enter Chapter 11

Understanding the New Anti-Anti-Trumpism

Becoming an American in 2020

Who Owns the Republican Party Now?

The GOP Is Abandoning the American Idea

Trump’s Mt. Rushmore Patriotpalooza

It's Time for a Declaration of Independence from Trump

Jeff Sessions Just Told Us Who He Is

Trump and His Yes-Men

Calculating the Cost of the Pandemic Shutdowns

Donald Trump Is All Done Caring

Bolton on Why Trump Likes Putin and Kim: "He Likes Being with the Other Big Guys"

The Grim Lessons of CHOP

Brace for Bankruptcies

A Terrible Pick for a Big Pentagon Job

How Has Donald Trump’s Mental State Affected His Presidency?

America's Underlying Injustice Won't Just Disappear

Reflecting on Betsy Rothstein’s ‘Mirror’

Anti-Anti-Trumpism: Book Review Edition

Matt Gaetz Is Living in Donald Trump’s America

So Much for Trump’s ‘Love’ of the Military

Trump’s Farewell Address

A Victory or a Landslide?

The Half Loaf

The Missouri Gun-Toting Lawyers Are Screwed

What Evangelicals’ Coziness with Trump Puts at Risk

The Russian Bounty Scandal Shouldn't Surprise Anyone

The Dean of BDS?

The COVID Resurgence and Trump’s ‘Red Wall’ States

John Bolton's Contribution to 'America First'

We Need ‘Dad History’ to Help Understand Our Monuments

About that Peggy Noonan Column

The Gross Hellscape That Awaits Ted Cruz on Parler

100 Reasons Trump Is Unfit to Be President

Pssst—the Russians and Chinese Are Still Trying to Interfere in the 2020 Election

My Confederate Past

What Joe Biden Should Say About the Madison Riots

Is This the Second Wave?

Trump's Brutal Battleground Polls

The Far Right Establishes Autonomous Zone Safe Space App Parler

The Huge Challenges Facing Biden

Trump the Barbarian

Florida's Idiocracy

Bolsonaro’s Coronavirus Denial Could Sink the Brazilian Economy

What Trump Wants from the Trade War and Farm Bailouts

Defend Taiwan Now, or Lose it Forever

Throw the Book at the Rioters

Public Diplomacy and the Risk of Overmoralizing

How Trump Undermines the Push for Human Rights Abroad

Reform the Law, Too

Why Does Brad Parscale Still Have a Job?

The Death of Trump's Illusions

What You Learn from Going ‘in the Arena’

MLB Is Trying to Use the Pandemic to Force the Designated Hitter on America

Three Recent Reversals Highlight the Challenges of COVID Science

Time with Dad

Make Arenas Empty Again

The GOP After Trump

Corruption and Coverup in Mike Pompeo’s State Department

We Need More Trials By Jury

The ‘Wednesday Night Massacre’ in U.S. International Media

About that Trump Economy . . .

America Is Lucky Bolton Didn't Testify During Impeachment

What Is John Bolton's Legacy

Trump Says Bin Laden Endorsed Biden

Trump’s Ineptitude Saved DACA … for Now

Ten Takeaways from Bolton's Book

Abolish the Death Penalty

Trump Defenders Tie Themselves in Knots Over Bolton Book

Why Evangelicals Support Trump—and Why They Shouldn’t

George Floyd Changed My Mind

John Bolton Tells the Truth

The Smart Money Is on Val Demings

China Flexes Its Muscles While America Sleeps

The Generals Are Fighting Back

Michigan May be a Nightmare for the GOP

The Democratic People’s Republic of CHAZ

"Thank You for Your Service" Gets a Stress Test

Why People Don’t Vote

The Presidency as Performance Art

Supreme Court Rules on Sex Discrimination. “But Gorsuch” Hardest Hit.

#Losing Is the New #Winning

How Far Can Trump Push America’s Military?

Virginia Race Another Lesson in Trump-Era GOP Cruelty

Trump, West Point, and Immortan Joe

The Social-Media Tail Wags the News-Media Dog

Trump Is Too Weak to Be a Strongman

Where is the DOJ Civil Rights Division?

This Means War!

How Nick Saban and Drew Brees Can Lead

Trump’s Foolish Plan to Cut Back on Our Troops in Germany

Is Trump Losing the Culture War?

The Generals and the Historian

Quitting the WHO

LOL Some Things Matter

It's Not the Tweet

What do "Defund the Police" and "Abolish the Police" Really Mean?

How to Change Lethal Force Rules for Police

Don't Abolish the Police. Reform Them.

How Bad Is the Systemic Failure of Minneapolis Law Enforcement?

Republican Senators Suffer Sudden Onset of Hysterical Blindness

Mitt Romney's Arc of History

Jeff Sessions Tries to Thread the Trumpist Needle

Why America’s Protests Are the World’s Protests

Crises and Competence

Al Sharpton Should Not Become the Public Face of the Protests

Arizona GOP’s 10-Year Plan to Turn the State Blue

If Germany Won’t Help Bail Out Italy, Who Will?

The 2020 Cake Is (Almost) Baked

Misunderstanding Singapore

We're Way Past "Enough"

The Mattis Effect

Trump and Churchill: MAGA Fever Dream

Trump’s Authoritarian Impulse

The Three Levels of Corruption in the Buffalo Police Assault Video

The 'Khakistocracy' Tries to Save America

The Riots and the Fragility of Civilization

Police and Systemic Racism: Suggestions for Reform

A Tale of Two Protests

This Isn’t the America I Signed Up For

Hong Kong Is the Latest Battle for the Values of the Free World

The GOP Section 230 Strategy Will Benefit Trump and Only Trump

Racial Injustice Remains the Great Weakness of American Democracy

The ‘Tear Gas Hoax’ Hoax

Trump and the American Idiocracy

Curfews Don’t Protect People

Protests and Power

Trump Should Put Down the Bible, Open It, and Read

A Tale of Two Church Visits

Trump’s Republican National Convention and the Psychology of Obedience

Putting the Watchdogs to Sleep

Thank You Mister Trump!

This Is How Kent State Happened

We Are the World

It’s a Set Up

Trump’s Insurrection Act Threat

Tom Cotton Should Know Better

Peaceful Protesters were Tear-Gassed so Trump Could Have a Photo Op

Stand with Hong Kong

COVID and Churches Go to the Supreme Court

How Many Bad Apples Are We Really Talking About?

The Speech America Does Not Need to Hear

Working Harder to Listen

Days of Fire, Days of Grace

It’s Time for Another Declaration of Conscience

Rodney King Was Right

Donald Trump Is America’s First Vigilante President

To Make Police Accountable, End Qualified Immunity

Trump’s Biggest Enemy is Context

Picnic at Hanging Rock is the Perfect Quarantine Novel

Trump's Cowardly "Press Conference"

Trump and the 100,000

Trump’s Executive Order on Social Media Grows the Administrative State

For Italy’s Sake, Put the Central Bankers in Charge

Actually, Virtue Signaling Is Good

Rush Limbaugh's Legacy Is Complete

Protest as Profession in the Age of COVID-19

Should We Resume Nuclear Testing?

Who’s Watching the Relief Money?

The Case for Klobuchar

Don't Blame Twitter

FAQ: Should Twitter Ban Donald Trump?

SpaceX: Flying the American Way

Bird-Watching While Black

Is the Spell of Political Correctness Breaking?

The Commander-in-Tweet Isn’t Just Disrespectful, He’s Dangerous

Break Up Facebook

The Clash with China Is Coming

How to Think About the Pandemic's Memorial Day

Memorial Day 2020: Grieving Another COVID-19 Death Count Milestone

Kramerbooks, Sentimentality, and Me

Liberate Naturalization Ceremonies!

Coronavirus Summer

When the Kids are the Henchmen

Never Trumpers and the Future of American Conservatism

Sweden’s Trolley Problem

What Winning the War on COVID-19 Looks Like

You Will Never Be #MAGA Enough

Is Holocaust Denial Conservative Now?

Break Up Amazon

The Strange Case of Ron Johnson

Susan Rice Email Debunks the "Obamagate" Conspiracy Theory

A Retreat without Peace

Josh Hawley’s New Smoot-Hawley

The Trumpian Doublethink

Why We Wear Masks

Trump's Weekend of Scandal Was Hiding in Plain Sight

A Picture Is Worth 100,000 Lives

Trump v. Fauci? Unfortunate, But Easy

New Approaches in New York City

The HEROES Act and How to Allocate Federal Aid

Dear Reader

How Brad Parscale Conned Donald Trump

The Case for a League of Democracies

How Rusty Reno Infected First Things

All He Does Is Fight

Michael Flynn Can’t Just Walk Away from His Guilty Pleas

The Pandemic and the GOP’s Science Problem

The Curious Case of the People Who Want to "Reopen" America—But Not Wear Masks

Was Bill Barr Allowed to Intervene in the Flynn Case?

The Cruelty of Conspiracy: A Personal Story

Poland’s Election Mess Is a Warning to America

Government Debt Still Matters – Just Ask Italy

Is the Trump Campaign App Designed to Win the Election, or Launch Trump TV?

Light at the End of the Tunnel?

What the Supreme Court Clash Over Trump’s Taxes Means for Democracy

Make America Selfish

Do the State Shutdowns Violate the U.S. Constitution?

Taking #Obamagate Seriously

Donald Trump Shoots 100,000 People on Fifth Avenue

March Divided, Strike United

COVID-19 and the Limits of Science

Trump, Reagan, and "Mourning in America"

Bill Barr Wants Us to Pretend Flynn’s Lies Don’t Matter

I Like People Who Were Captured. Donald Trump? Not So Much.

Our Part in the Global Vaccine Hunt

Can Biden Compete with Trump Digitally?

Actually, the Orange Man Is Bad

How to Pick the Lockdown's Low-Hanging Fruit

Flynn Dismissal: Bill Barr Thumbs His Nose at Justice

Arrested Development

Another Scandal.<br>Another Whistleblower.<br>Another Impeachment?

Trump Is Gambling for His Political Future with American Lives

Injustice for Kavanaugh Is Injustice for Biden Too

The Novel Coronavirus Praises The Plan to Reopen America

Reforming America: The Pandemic Imperative

American Forsythia

A Pandemic of Madness

The President Should Resign

No, You Can’t Sue China for the Coronavirus

The ‘Health Care Heroes’ and the 2020 Election

Team Trump’s Gross Exploitation of Tara Reade

Joe Biden: Still Stronger Than You Think

Forget Competence, Trump Wants Loyalty

How a Billionaire Could Guarantee Vote-By-Mail

COVID-19 and the Butterfield Effect

How Livestreaming Can Help Us Better Understand Church

Constitutional Stupidity, Constitutional Tragedy

The Eternal Sunshine of Trump's Spotless Mind

Decoding Bill Barr’s Threats To State Coronavirus Orders

Conservative Psychology Favors Vote-By-Mail

Governing and Campaigning in the Pandemic

How Italy Could Crash the Global Economy

Mike Pence, the Mayo Clinic, and the Mask

We Need to Protect Our Meat-Processing Workers

Jared, the Trump Family, and China

Time for the "Shoe-Leather Epidemiologists"

Congress Needs to Solve the COVID-19 Liability Problem

The Stories Dan Crenshaw Tells Himself

Are We Still Doing "Keep America Great"?

The Fault in Ourselves

What Biden Has To Say

A Democratic Renaissance

COVID-19 Is This Generation’s Vietnam

Where’s the Blame for the CDC?

Is Donald Trump Manly?

The Hidden Nuclear Risk of the Pandemic

Federalism vs. Trumpism

Biden's Choice

America First, But without Trump

Was Trump Incompetent? Or Was He Lying?

Bill Barr Wants Trump to Know He's Reliable in a Pandemic, Too

BLEACH??????

Donald Trump, Un-American

We Cannot "Reopen" America

February 7: A Day That Will Live in Infamy

Forget about a V-Shaped Recovery

The Pro-Wrestling Presidency Keeps Working the Marks

Two Charts Show How Hard It Is to Make Pandemic Policy Decisions

Trump’s Immigration Ban Is a Self-Defeating Distraction

Remember Who The Enemy Is

How Trump’s COVID-19 Failure Betrayed Our Military and Veterans

Antigone, Heroes, and COVID-19

One Chart Shows Which States Are in Trouble with COVID-19

Don’t Deny Pandemic Relief Loans to Second-Chance Entrepreneurs

What Makes SARS-CoV-2 the Perfect Pathogen

The Ten Weeks That Lost the War: A Timeline of How Trump Lied, Bungled and Screwed America in the COVID-19 Crisis

Trumpism Could Be the Future of Pandemic Politics

How Trump Turned the Pandemic Into Identity Politics

Stop Giving Jared and Ivanka a Free Pass

The Pandemic and Black Voter Turnout

How To Reform Healthcare After COVID-19

Walking Out: How the Coronavirus Has Changed Socializing

John Paul II, Globalist

Don’t Make a Federal Case Out of Drive-In Church Services

Look What He Makes You Give

What Have We Got Right Now That's Good?

A China Strategy Blueprint

The Problem with the Rush to Reopen

China Being Wrong Doesn’t Make Trump Right

The Pandemic and the Economics of U.S. Health Care

COVID-19 Crisis: Time to Turn from Reaction to Reconstitution

Vote-By-Mail Is Happening. Will We Be Ready?

The Coming Populist Libertarian Rebellion

Trump and Xi Are Both to Blame

Big Government, Small Government, Pandemic Government

Our Masks, Ourselves

Why Don't COVID-19 Truthers Blame Trump for Anything?

How the IMF Can Help Cushion the Coronavirus Depression… Or Make It Worse

Justin Amash Should Not Run for President (In 2020)

One Chart Explains Why COVID-19 Is Worse Than the Flu

Going Viral: How Putin Is Using COVID-19

On the Dangers of Performative Authoritarianism

What Happens in Wisconsin May Not Stay in Wisconsin

In Defense of Meme-ing Edward Hopper

The Real COVID-19 Death Toll Is Higher Than We Think

The False Choice Between Science And Economics

Joe Biden: First, Do No Harm

Trump Claims ‘Total’ Authority to Order States Open

February 2020

COVID-19 is Crowning New Celebs in a Culture of Competence

The Ditherer-in-Chief

Have You Gone to the Movies For the Last Time?

The Constitution and the Coronavirus

The Dangerous Foolishness of First Things

The Faucian Bargain

The Pandemic and the Noise We Need

The Republican Pandemic Playbook

Trump's Authoritarian Pandemic

The Ballad of Clay Travis

Trump’s Purge of Inspectors General Deepens His Ability to Corrupt the Government

Knut Wittkowski: The Coronavirus Truthers' Newest "Expert"

Three Things We Don’t Need in the Next Stimulus Bill (And One We Do)

Treat Taiwan Like the Independent Ally It Is

Bernie Sanders Dropped Out Because His Campaign Believed Its Own BS

Stupid Kills: The 5 Worst GOP Governors’ Responses to COVID-19

COVID-19 and the Electoral Map

The Pandemic and the Future of Data Privacy

Trump's Orwellian Plague

Only One President in the Last 20 Years Wasn't Worried About a Pandemic

The Coronavirus Truther Elite

No, We Should Not Admire Communists for Their Passion

Stop Undermining Health Policy with Misinformation

Why Is Trump Obsessed with Hydroxychloroquine?

‘America First’ and the Coronavirus

Why Trump Fired an Inspector General—and Why It Matters

Tuesday's Wisconsin Election Is Our Future

There’s a Way for the Economy to Shelter in Place, Too

How Software and Big Data Could Eat the Next Pandemic

The Media Is Not the Problem with COVID-19

America Is Hostage to the Stories Trump Wants to Tell About Himself

Is Trump Playing Games with His Death Toll Projections?

The Pentagon’s Transparency Problem

The Cult Comes for Dr. Fauci

Don’t Bank on a Quick Economic Recovery

The Trump Virus Is Getting Worse

Trump Has Broken the Republican Party—and Conservatism—for Good

The Malicious Irresponsibility of Rush Limbaugh

A Timeline of Trump's Press Briefing Lies

The COVID-19 Numbers in the Developing World Are Terrifying

This Is the Entire 2020 Election in One Screenshot

Stay at Home. Vote at Home.

The Coronavirus Death Count and Trump’s TV Ratings

Trumpism During a Pandemic

Viktor Orbán’s Pandemic Power Grab

Donald Trump's Blame Game

The U.S. Military in the Coronavirus Crisis

Here's How Biden Resets the Race During a Pandemic

American Paralysis Fuels Freedom’s Retreat

After the Pandemic

COVID-19 Has Killed More Americans Than 9/11

Economic Nationalism Will Make COVID Worse

The Federalist’s Dangerous Coronavirus Trutherism

The Iran Sanctions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Tale From Wisconsin

Trump: America’s Most Dangerous Pathogen?

Trump vs. the Governors?

The Only Stimulus We Need Is to Defeat the Coronavirus

For Trump, COVID-19 Is Another Excuse to Limit Immigration

Trump Hotels Still Open for Business Despite Pandemic

An Open Letter to George W. Bush and Barack Obama

The Coronavirus and the Surveillance State

Europe Needs to Wake Up and Smell the COVID

Meet Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Petri Dish)

Donald Trump Repurposes Easter

COVID-19 Is Not a Black Swan. Trump Is the Black Swan.

The ‘Let the Elderly Die’ Chorus

Trump Identifies the Real Victim of the COVID-19 Epidemic: Himself

Protecting Democracy during a Global Pandemic

Mobilize Med Student Workforces Now

In This Emergency, Let Congress Work Remotely

Our Parents Are Not Expendable

Mail It In

COVID-19 and Our Coming Clash with China

Warnings Ignored: A Timeline of Trump’s COVID-19 Response

You Cannot Fix the Economy Until You Fix the Pandemic

If COVID-19 is War, Why Aren't We Treating it That Way?

Rein in the Regs to Beat Coronavirus

Trump’s Next Pivot Will Leave Us More Divided Than Ever

We're All Libertarians Now

Fight the Virus. Fight the Depression. And Fight Trump.

Lies in a Time of Pandemic

Trump's "China Virus" Pivot

Coming Soon: Donald Trump As the Hero of COVID-19

Where Are the Tests?

Beware of Guidance Fatigue

The Petty President

History Sucks

Who Can Trump Blame for the Pandemic?

Burr and Loeffler’s Corona Cash Out

Quarantine and the Constitution

We Can Wake Up Now

Trump Could Still Win

How to Work from Home As If You Actually Want to Enjoy It

How Twitter Could Help Save Us From COVID-19

What If Biden Hadn't Beaten Bernie So Quickly?

Six Lessons from the Democratic Primaries

COVID-19 and the Missing Call to Sacrifice

The Sanders Campaign Is a Menace to Public Health

Anatomy of a Viral Lie

The Coming Coronavirus Recession Calls for “Helicopter Money”

Bernie's Choice: Ride or Die

It's the Supply Shock, Stupid

Pharma as Partner, Not Punching Bag

Bernie's Last Stand

We Can Be Better Than COVID-19

Republican Socialists?

A Recession is a Public Health Necessity. Here's How to Make it Short and Sharp.

The Coronavirus Crisis and the Politics of ‘Owning’

Bad Takes on the Coronavirus

Save the U.S. Oil Industry

Democrats Need the Best of Biden

Trump in the Time of COVID-19

A Plea to My Trump-Loving Friends

An Appeal to the Vice President

The Coronavirus According to Donald Trump

Trump Is Not a Crisis Leader

Will the Coronavirus Kill Trump’s Reelection Campaign?

Trump's Authoritarian Blindness Comes Home to Roost

Beto's Law Strikes Again

Why Sanders Failed on Tuesday

Movements vs. Coalitions

Democrats Are Better at This

After Michigan, the VP Games Begin

COVID-19: Lessons from South Korea

Black Swans, Networks, and Covid-19

The Election Night Guide to the Michigan Primary

Elizabeth Warren Deserved to Lose

Time to Rescue Idlib

Three Worrisome Constitutional Trends

Michelle Malkin: Mother of Groypers

Biden Is Winning the Democrats' Iron Triangle

Biden's Overwhelming Delegate Math

Crime and Punishment and the Beaning of the Houston Astros

Beware the New Fiscal Hypocrisy

Trump’s Afghanistan Deal: Surrender with Reparations

Joe Biden Has Saved the Democrats—For Now

If Italy Gets Sick, the Whole World Catches a Cold

Three Myths That Exploded on Super Tuesday

In Defense of Mike Bloomberg

Life is Contingent

BidenMania Is Running Wild!

Joe Biden's Silent Majority

After Super Tuesday, What’s Next for Bloomberg and Warren?

What to Watch for Tonight on Super Tuesday

Bernie and Trump, Putin’s Chaos Candidates

Bernie or Joe?

How to Make America's Next Trade Policy

The Simple Answer

The End Is Near

A Tale of Two Mayors

Democracy Disarmed

What to Read During a Pandemic

What If This Is as Good as It Gets?

Trump Wins Appeals Case Blocking McGahn Testimony

Laura Loomer Is the Congresswoman Donald Trump Deserves

Bernie's Trillions

The Political Stakes of the Coronavirus Crisis

McCain-Feingold Gave Us Trump. It’s Giving Us Bernie, Too.

Sierra Blanca Is How Trump Crushes Bernie

Have You Accepted the Free Market as Your Personal Savior?

#NeverBernie Is Never Happening

Trumpkins for Bernie

Bernie Sanders Wants an Imperial Presidency, Too

President Trump's Trade War is an Election Gamble

Who Went After Whom, and Why?

The Also-Rans Still Running

Donald Trump’s Broken Trade Promises

Democrats Get Their MRI for the Soul in South Carolina

Newspaper Endorsements Are the Worst

Iran and the Coronavirus Crisis

The Inadequacy of Progressive Foreign Policy

What Would a Sanders Presidency Mean for the Rule of Law?

Bernie Sanders and the Greatest Show Trials on Earth!

Democrats Can Stop Bernie. But Only If They Want To.

An Open Letter to the Democrats Defending Their Party Against Bernie Sanders

Trump’s Instruments of Power and Intimidation

Can Bloomberg Save Democrats from a Hostile (Socialist) Takeover?

A Campaign About the Future

How One Business Management Theory Explains Donald Trump

The 5 Lessons from 2016 Democrats Need to Understand If They Want to Stop Bernie

The Question Bernie Is Never Asked

Who Won?

The SMOD Debate

The Best Democratic Debate Ever

But He Tweets!

Vegas Fight Night

The Skeptic's Case Against Bloomberg

Ultra-Rich Candidates Are Bad. People-Powered Candidates Are Worse.

Trump, Justice, and (What Used to Be) the American Way

How to Tell Your Friends That Mayor Pete Is Gay

Bernie Could Beat Trump. Here's How.

Don't Nuke the Nuclear Family

A “Perfect” Impeachment Acquittal?

Carlos Correa Is Baseball Trump

Is Mike Bloomberg Ready For His Close-Up?

Romney-Bloomberg: The Unity Ticket America Deserves

We Already Know What Trump Will Do Next

The World Is Ending. And We Probably Deserve It.

Trump Is Why You Got Michael Avenatti

School Choice Is Not Enough

Bill Barr's Worked Shoot

The Irrelevance of Marco Rubio

Bill Barr’s Really Bad First Year

A Post-Impeachment Roadmap for Congress

The MLB Is Like a Drug Cartel Trying to Kill Its Customers

A Time to Speak

Time for #NeverBernie?

The Coronavirus Crisis is an Opportunity

The Democratic Party Is Collapsing. Just Like the Republican Party Did.

Bernie Sanders Is Ron Paul 2.0

The Ignoble Presidency

The Democratic State of Play

Prosecutors Quit Roger Stone Case Over DOJ Interference

Chaos Reigns

The View from the New Hampshire Losers Bracket

New Hampshire's Two Alternate Timelines

Inside the Trump Bubble

Wrong Way on Huawei

Trumpism Is the Prosperity Gospel of Politics

Bernie Bros and the Internet of Beefs

Democrats’ Dangerous War Powers Gambit

Europe Is Out of Economic Ammunition

Health Care Is a Trump Swing-State Vulnerability

For What It's Worth

The Fight Over the 1619 Project

Beware of the Polls

Joe Walsh's Third Act

Donald Trump Definitely Learned His Lesson

The Real Truth the Iowa Caucuses Don't Want You to Know!

Trumpvangelicals Are Bad at Politics

The Closing of the Conservative Mind

The Gospel According to Mad King Donald

Trump Is the Rosetta Stone for Understanding Mitt Romney

Bern It All Down

Romney: One Man Alone

Cheer Up: Impeachment Worked the Way It Was Supposed To

How Did Fyre Festival: Iowa Happen?

El Rushbo and Me

The State of Our Union Is a Reality Show

After Iowa

Democrats Did the Russians' Work for Them

The Informant! Caucus

Mayor Pete Was Robbed

No, the Coronavirus Is Not Good for the Economy

Is the Iowa Democratic Caucus Democratic?

Iowa’s Inverse Heisenberg Problem

Are We at Peak Football?

Is Congress Willing to Assert Responsibility for Trade?

#NeverSMOD

Sanders and Trump: Striking Similarities

Blessings of the Post-Gaffe World

The GOP’s Sham “No Witnesses” Arguments—Explained

The Quiet Significance of NeverTrump

Alexander vs. Trump

Four Key Moments from Thursday’s Impeachment Q&A

Impeachment Was the Right Call. Doing It This Way Was Not.

High Crimes and Misdirection

Senate Surrender?

What Went Wrong for Elizabeth Warren?

Who’s Afraid of Joe Biden?

Against the Sweet Meteor of Death

This Too Shall Crash

There Is a Deal Republicans and Democrats Can Make on Impeachment

John Bolton Is Not a Hero. Or a Villain.

The Haunting

Trump’s Unkept Fiscal and Spending Promises

Trump's New Rules About "Birth Tourism" Are Really an Attack on Birthright Citizenship

The Lessons Kobe Bryant Teaches Us

Speak for America, John!

Mike Pompeo Is The Worst

This Is How Trump Would Destroy Bernie Sanders

About Those Space Force "Uniforms"

Normalizing Trump’s Abuse of Power

Behind Michael Bloomberg’s Impeachment Ad Buy

Trump and the March for Life

Are Democrats Getting the Trial They Want?

Does This Impeachment Trial Matter?

Donald Trump, Pastor-in-Chief

Derek Jeter Is Here to Save Us

A Trial That Isn’t a Trial?

Did the New York Times Actually Endorse Amy Klobuchar for VP?

The Values We Share (or Why I Am A Republican)

12 Details from the Clinton Impeachment Trial That You Should Know

John Roberts, A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes To You

The New Evidence Against Trump Since He Was Impeached

We're Trying to Send a Refugee to Die to Make a Government Lie Seem True

Trump’s Muddled Foreign Policy Thinking—and Ours

The Houston Astros Real Crime Isn't Stealing Signs

Is the Oath a Joke?

President Trump Isn't the Only One on Trial

Donald Trump, Impeachment, and the Houston Astros

Republicans Now Own Impeachment

The McSally Maneuver

Trump’s New Asylum Rules Don’t Make Us Safer or Stronger

Let’s Blame Piers Morgan for Megxit

I Believe Elizabeth Warren

Boris Johnson’s Brexit Challenge

This Is How Bernie Wins

Roger Scruton, 1944-2020

Iran’s Permanent Revolution

In the War for the Progressive Future, Bernie Just Crushed Elizabeth Warren

There's a Soleimani Trap Waiting for Democrats at the Iowa Debate

Who Is Pete Buttigieg?

Mayor Pete: Neocon?

Here's How the Democratic Race Could Change Between Today and Iowa

Can Republican Virtue Save Democracy?

Trump's Foreign Policy Shows the Weakness of Nationalism

Why Is the U.S. Denying Detained Border-Crossers Flu Shots?

On the Impeachment Trial: A Memo from Two Former Senators

War Powers and Unintended Consequences

Checks and Balances... And Trump

Why Won't Facebook Take Deepfakes Seriously?

What Would Reagan Think?

Occam's Election

Trump’s Treatment of U.S. Allies Comes Home to Roost

Team of Rookies

For the Democrats, It's Biden—Or Chaos

Did Trump Create a New Standard for "Self-Defense" By Killing Soleimani?

If There Are Witnesses, the Senate Can Compel Them

How Rudy Got Trump Impeached

Illegal. Barbaric. And Foolish.

The Big Lie Comes to British Politics

The 2020 Economy Could Be Bad for Trump… And the Rest of Us

How Killing Soleimani Creates Danger—and Opportunity

The Four Lies Trump Tells Evangelical Christians

Among the Trumpers: A Holiday Report from Trump’s Base

Killing Soleimani Creates Opportunity for America and Its Allies

The 2020 Democratic Field as WWE Superstars

Gertrude Himmelfarb, 1922-2019

Civility and Its Critics

Liberty, Equality, and Identity