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July 15, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Republicans’ Latest Front in the Culture War: A Virginia Politics Professor
“It’s about intimidation—and not of me,” says the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato
July 7, 2021
Alex Shephard
If You Want to Get Ahead in the GOP, You’d Better Support Trump’s Big Lie
Aspiring Republicans once had to sign Grover Norquist’s no-new-taxes pledge. Now they must be devoted to the former president’s perfidies.
July 2, 2021
Alex Shephard
Don’t Blame New York City’s Election Mess on Ranked-Choice Voting
Blame the city’s corrupt and incompetent Board of Elections instead.
June 29, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
The End of American Politics
Everything you think you know about how our democracy functions is about to change.
June 24, 2021
Alex Shephard
Mainstream Reporters Are Parroting the Republicans’ Idiotic Talking Points About Crime
The GOP wants to convince America that socialist, defund-the-police Democrats are responsible for rising crime. Political journalists are already sold.
June 23, 2021
Magazine
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
The Rise and Fall of an Herbal Viagra Scammer
An internet huckster got rich selling a sex enhancement supplement named Stiff Nights. Then the FDA sampled his wares.
June 16, 2021
Matt Ford
Republicans Are on the Brink of Embracing the Capitol Rioters
The party once freely condemned the would-be insurrectionists who attempted to waylay democracy. You’d hardly know it now.
June 10, 2021
Alex Shephard
“Populist” Conservatives Rush to the Defense of Megarich Tax Dodgers
For all the talk of the GOP’s new working-class focus, it’s as eager as ever to serve the interests of plutocrats at the expense of everyone else.
May 31, 2021
Alex Shephard
Republicans Fear Trump May Wreck Their Chances to Fulfill His Darkest Fantasies
Republicans are “fretting” about the former president’s political return. But they’re mostly worried about him undermining their ongoing anti-democratic efforts.
May 12, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Republican “Civil War” Is Actually Just the Trump GOP Against a Few Losers
Liz Cheney and Miles Taylor refuse to accept the obvious truth: They lost their battle for the soul of the party years ago.
May 7, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why the GOP Is Backing Elise Stefanik in Her War Against Liz Cheney
It’s not Stefanik’s record that matters. It’s her devotion to Donald Trump.
April 7, 2021
Magazine
Walter Shapiro
How Trump Wrecked the Conservative Money Machine
As corporate donations to the GOP decline, establishment Republicans are struggling to raise money, and extremists are raking in small donations. That just might give Democrats the edge in 2022.
March 12, 2021
Magazine
Jake Bittle
The Conservative Politics of Victimhood
What’s behind Meghan McCain’s bizarre assertion that liberals are to blame for Donald Trump’s rise
March 10, 2021
Magazine
Adele M. Stan
Insurrectionist in Chief
How Steve Bannon led the vanguard of the Capitol riots
February 11, 2021
Walter Shapiro
The Entire Republican Party Is on Trial
During the impeachment proceedings, the GOP is revealing just how soulless and spineless it really is.
February 3, 2021
Magazine
Sam Adler-Bell
Joe Manchin, King of the Senate
The Democratic senator has survived in West Virginia by casting himself as a champion of working people. Will his fixation on bipartisanship prevent him from living up to the role?
January 29, 2021
Magazine
Jake Bittle
The GOP Has Nothing Left but a Persecution Complex
What’s really behind the right’s war against Silicon Valley
January 27, 2021
Alex Shephard
Republicans Don’t Care About “Unity”
And the press shouldn’t pretend they do.
November 16, 2020
Magazine
Jonathan V. Last
The Republican Party Is Dead. It’s the Trump Cult Now.
The president may well be a liability for Republicans, but the GOP belongs to him now, and no one can change that.
November 11, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Media Finally Figured Out Trump. Now Do the GOP.
Why the Republican Party’s “performance art” excuse for undermining the election rings hollow
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