Finally, we will have some information that will allow us to decide whether to prefer liberalism or fascism. Open thread for people who would like to discuss it.
Author: Scott Lemieux
Assertions that a major negative story about Trump a month before the election can’t possibly matter are not actually based on anything: Nor is the assumption that these stories won’t matt
Let’s check in on Donald Trump’s boldly transformative economic populism, shall we: When President Trump steps on the debate stage Tuesday night in Ohio, no doubt he will claim the Buckeye
I will have a piece denouncing the Savvy This is No Big Deal And Won’t Matter Anyway takes that Paul discusses below later in the week (tl; dr the last election was flipped by the director of the FBI sending a letter about finding some emails that were quickly deemed immaterial to an insanely uninteresting […]
Eric Levitz is exactly right about the approach Democrats should take at the Barrett hearings: This time, things are different. McConnell has two more votes to spare, no one has accused Barrett of a v
Dahlia Lithwick is furious about Republican attempts to appropriate Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s identity for the woman cynically selected to make life worse for American women from the bench: Amid all
David Leonhardt has a useful summary of the first blockbuster NYT Trump tax story, and this is one of the most important points: With “The Apprentice” revenue declining, Mr. Trump has absorbed the losses partly through one-time financial moves that may not be available to him again. In 2012, he took out a $100 million […]
Because he’s a massive tax evader and/or world-historically incompetent businessman with massive conflicts of interest: Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the pres
Kevin Clark is excellent on how the rest of the league let the Pats have Cam Newton for almost nothing in terms of salary, and also how Belichick and McDaniels have completely rebuilt the offense arou
As Sarah Jones observes, Amy Coney Barrett’s forthcoming four decades on the Supreme Court reflect the fact that this is now Phyllis Schlafly’s America: Consider her out of context, and Amy Coney Barrett looks like a personal and professional success. A wife, a mother of seven, and now maybe a Supreme Court justice, Donald Trump’s […]
I really didn’t mean this is a dare: Any elite liberal lawyer/law prof who stands up for THIS nomination should be encased in a barrel and tossed into their choice of the Charles or Quinnipiac R
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a great justice and a great lawyer, but her having more faith in American institutions than Barack Obama (!) or Patrick “Blue Slip” Leahy (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) may end u