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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.

Supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement gather in Washington Square Park.

The Specter of Critical Race Theory Is Rotting Republicans’ Brains

Transforming the academic study of structural racism into a vague grab bag of villainy has been useful fodder for moral panic while the GOP figures out how to attack Joe Biden.

Thomas Geoghegan

Let’s Take the Filibuster to Court

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Michael Tomasky

Forget Putin, Merkel, and Macron. It’s Manchin, Sinema, and Feinstein Who Need the Democracy Lecture.

Joe Biden is making some necessary defenses of democracy abroad. I can’t help wishing he’d make them more forcefully here at home.

The Sleazy Story of How Biogen’s New Alzheimer’s Snake Oil Got Approved

The FDA should be our toughest regulatory body, but the pharmaceutical lobby has torn it to shreds.

Republicans Seriously Think Trump Lost the Election Because of a Lab Leak Cover-Up That They Invented

Republicans Seriously Think Trump Lost the Election Because of a Lab Leak Cover-Up That They Invented

Here’s an Idea for Liberals: Propaganda

Here’s an Idea for Liberals: Propaganda