What the January 6 Hearings Achieved
Republicans are accusing the January 6 Hearings of being a partisan witch hunt, but I’ve argued the opposite is true: in the effort to be bipartisan, the hearings have, if anything, underplayed GOP co...
22 Kesä 202235min
Dianne Feinstein and the Centrist Gerontocracy
Dianne Feinstein, who will soon celebrate her 89th birthday, is currently the oldest member of the Senate. In recent months, a controversy has swirled around her due to reports of her alleged cognitiv...
15 Kesä 202236min
Matt Duss on the Ukrainian Dilemma
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has settled into an interminable and bloody war of attrition. Even as the consequences of the war, including the disruption of the global food supply that could starve ...
8 Kesä 202236min
Parker Molloy on the Lies About the Uvalde Massacre
It’s become a familiar pattern that mass shootings are often exploited by the right to scapegoat marginalized groups. The tragedy in Uvalade, Texas is no exception. Within hours of the news of the sch...
1 Kesä 202238min
Midge Decter’s Reactionary Legacy
Midge Decter, who died at age 94 earlier this month, was a crucial figure in 20th century politics but also a much misunderstood one. She’s received many tributes from the political right which have c...
24 Touko 20221h 9min
Tucker Carlson’s Mouthpiece, Glenn Greenwald
The mass shooting in Buffalo, which left 10 people dead, has ignited a debate about the role the “great replacement” conspiracy theory plays in contemporary politics. As many commentators note, the “g...
18 Touko 202238min
What The Anti-Abortion Movement Learned From Abolitionists
On this week's episode of the Time of Monsters podcast, author Linda Hirschman joins the show to discuss the problems of activism in a country divided against itself. In the past I’ve described Linda ...
10 Touko 202236min
