What does it say about America that our two major presidential nominees have to, respectively, avoid acting like a total nut or merely need to convince us that he’s fairly alive?
American Democracy Redux
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Long before the age of lawfare embodied by trials like those of Hunter Biden and Donald Trump, politicians were supposed to at least pretend to address the concerns of the voters.
In a World of Lunatics, the Sane Voter Is Terrifying
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Both major-party candidates are unpalatable to the vast majority of voters. Yet most of those very same voters respond to the suggestion that they cast votes for a third-party candidate as though it were outlandish.
CSI: Lawfare
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An elite team of opposition researchers scour their political targets’ backgrounds for evidence of prosecutable crimes.
Trump Convicted on the Wrong 34 Counts
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Donald Trump committed countless crimes without being held accountable. So it’s a weird reflection of our societal priorities that the one offense for which he is being held accountable is a relatively trivial paperwork charge.
Ukraine As Performance Art
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former actor, has quite the knack for strange theater of the absurd. Now he’s hosting a “peace summit” which doesn’t invite his adversary, Russia, and which his main supporter, President Joe Biden, is refusing to attend. That, plus the fact that Ukraine says it doesn’t want peace.
I Would Vote If I Could Afford To
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President Biden’s reelection campaign is being hampered by stubbornly high prices and frozen wages, the ultimate economic phenomenon that makes consumers feel that the economy isn’t doing well.
Crack Is Looking Good
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Joe Biden says that he won’t pardon his son Hunter Biden even if he’s convicted at his trial in Delaware for falsely stating that he was not addicted to drugs when he bought a gun in 2018.
First They Forced Us To Get Pregnant
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Right-wing Republicans are banning abortion and contraception. Rape is probably next. If forced pregnancies are the point, however, their environmental policies will interfere with their agenda.
Doomed Be the Peacekeepers
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A dozen Republican senators sent a written threat to the International Criminal Court warning them not to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Which is itself illegal under international law.
