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2024 will probably be miserable

2023: My year in movies

2023: My year in books

Knocking Trump off the ballot won't save democracy. But it probably won't hurt, either.

Does anybody care about the Biden impeachment inquiry?

Trump is *the* issue in 2024

Democracy is at stake in 2024. Do voters care?

Actually, not killing civilians is good

Trump could be our next president. That's not the media's fault.

Christians who hope their political enemies will literally burn in hell

The liberal media's mistreatment of Bobby Knight

You can't make war harmless for the warfighters

Yes, the Hamas attacks on Israel were 'evil'

The most hilarious paragraph you'll read in the New York Times today

The 'scoop industrial complex'

Does Martin Scorcese hate his audience? Or does he want cinema to fail?

Gun massacres and the human heart

The war in Ukraine is not a jobs program

Justice and mistakes

Nobody wants to hear about peace and justice. We should talk about it anyway.

Who is going to enforce 'international law'?

Three things to read about 'Israel's 9/11'

Folks, I'm losing my grasp on grace

Donald Trump's casual approach to nuclear genocide

Charlie Savage, Joe Biden and the imperial presidency

Republicans saved Africa from AIDS. Conservatives want to hobble that accomplishment.

The conservative 'media ecosystem' tearing down public education

'A digitized, isolated, dehumanized existence'

Trump, Rudy and the provincialism of New York media

We all get what Fox News is about by now, don't we?

The coffee shop is my 'Church for the Nones'

Trump voters think he's more honest than their own relatives

The problem isn't Tuberville

A police raid on a Kansas newspaper

Did conservatives forget about unintended consequences?

This is why the Founders rebelled against the British Empire: Ergonomics

Did Republicans save democracy in 2020?

Donald Trump's John Hinckley Jr. defense

Sinéad O'Connor aged like a normal human woman

Information? Or incitement?

Vacationing on the edge of the apocalypse

Jo

Taking the 'capitalism' out of 'woke capitalism'

Trump thinks he can erase the 'stain' of impeachment. But he can't.

The Trumpist right is coming for Brown v. Board of Education

Is Joe Biden a jerk?

That Kennedy magic

The rage and joy of MAGAdom

What is July 4 to the ambivalent liberal?

One way to solve the military recruitment crisis

Grace for me, 'But He Fights!' for thee

Water break wickedness in Texas

'The Last Video Store on Earth'

Not talking to China is dumb, redux

In this house we believe that science is real

The 2024 GOP presidential primary is about undoing one of the few decent things Donald Trump ever did

Not talking to China is dumb

John Yoo comes to Trump's defense

The very brief case against pardoning Donald Trump

Goodreads has a heckler's veto problem

Everybody does it

Don't gloat

Claremont and Josh Hawley: Why the indignation about Trump's indictment is so disingenuous

A short ode to Philadelphia

Kansas’ new ATF gun crime center is nothing to celebrate. It’s a tragedy we need it

Here's the real reason CNN's Donald Trump disaster was inevitable

Reviewing E. Jean Carroll's wardrobe

Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll

The other side is always tougher than we are

Three thoughts about ... performative politics

Donald Trump may skip the GOP primary debates.

Joe Biden doesn't do press conferences. I'm OK with that.

The era of pop-up institutions

Even Donald Trump doesn't like the forces that Donald Trump has set loose in American life

Fox News and the climate

Fox News settles with Dominion

The GOP's 'messaging' problem on abortion

The courts are in trouble

The 'evils' that Tennessee Republicans will and won't address

A small, diminished man

50.

This isn't the end. But it might be the beginning of the end.

Gun massacres will make us lonelier

The Donald Dread is returning

I am in denial about ChatGPT

Is the media fawning over Ron DeSantis?

Not better or worse. More.

The U.S. returns to the Philippines. Is that a good thing?

Why I'm not watching the Chiefs or Eagles play today

Is Jonathan Chait letting Ron DeSantis off the (racist) hook?