9 Best Articles in 2022
The Washington Post
Just 25 congressional Republicans acknowledge Biden’s win, Washington Post survey finds
The Washington Post
2020-12-05 · Of the 249 Republicans in the House and Senate, 222 will not say who won the election, largely hiding from answering questions about Trump’s loss.
Shared by 150, including Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Mary Annaïse Heglar, Marc Abrahams, Joshua Benton, Tiffany Shlain, Alberto Cairo, Adrian Roselli 🗯, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Brendan Nyhan, Richard Dawkins, David Weigel, Stephan J. Guyenet, Augie Ray, Paul Krugman, Brian Stelter, Mathieu von Rohr, zeldman, Brian Klaas, Jeff Jarvis, Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈
The New York Times
We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated
The New York Times
5 min read · From 2019 · The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet.
Reader View · Shared by 50, including Scott McLeod, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈, W. David Stephenson, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Guy Kawasaki
The New York Times
Wisconsin Republicans are pushing to take over the state’s elections from bipartisan commission
The New York Times
8 min read · 2021-11-19 · Republicans in Wisconsin are engaged in an all-out assault on the state’s election infrastructure.
Reader View · Shared by 67, including David Weigel, Richard Deitsch, Alfie Kohn, Jason Stanley, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Massimo Pigliucci, Jay Rosen
POLITICO
State Republicans push new voting restrictions after Trump’s loss
POLITICO
4 min read · 2021-01-24 · Georgia is at the center of the effort, with state Republicans discussing voter ID changes and other new policies after Biden won the state.
Reader View · Shared by 67, including Garance Franke-Ruta, Deborah Blum, Ex Apologist, Shel Holtz, Karen K. Ho, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Steve Silberman, Marc Abrahams, Brent Toderian, Kelsey D. Atherton, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦
The Washington Post
Former U.S. attorneys — all Republicans — back Biden, saying Trump threatens ‘the rule of law’
The Washington Post
2020-10-27 · Their open letter marks the latest instance of prominent Republicans backing the Democratic nominee.
Shared by 60, including Michelle Singletary, Paul Graham, Steve Silberman, Dave Giles, Anne Thompson, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Brendan Nyhan, Scott McLeod, Yves Mulkers
The New York Times
The Republicans’ Fake Investigations
The New York Times
6 min read · From 2018 · The attack on our firm, Fusion GPS, is a diversionary tactic by Republicans who don’t want to investigate Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
Reader View · Shared by 56, including Merkstatt, Henning von Vogelsang, Dr. Pete Meyers, Chris Messina, Liv 😷, Trey Tweets Into the Void
The New York Times
Amid Extreme Weather, a Shift Among Republicans on Climate Change
The New York Times
9 min read · 2021-08-13 · Many Republicans in Congress no longer deny that Earth is heating because of fossil fuel emissions. But they say abandoning oil, gas and coal will harm the economy.
Reader View · Shared by 53, including Ed Maibach, Paul Krugman, Svein Tveitdal, John Schwartz, Dan Gillmor, Aron Pilhofer, Brad DeLong 🖖, William Gibson
The Washington Post
Opinion | Our constitutional crisis is already here
The Washington Post
2021-09-23 · Trump’s charges of fraud in 2020 are not about looking back, as many Republicans insist. They are about establishing the predicate to challenge future election results more effectively.
Shared by 259, including David Weigel, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Guy Kawasaki, Jay Rosen, Niall Ferguson, Alberto Cairo, anildash, Anne Applebaum, Stuart A. Thompson, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸, Kevin M. Kruse, Felix Salmon, David Wessel, Barry Ritholtz, Brad DeLong 🖖, Patricia Smith, Michael Clemens, Ida Bae Wells, Jason Stanley, Dean Baker
Vox
Georgia Republicans cancel election for state Supreme Court, meaning governor can appoint a Republican
Vox
4 min read · From 2020 · Republicans will control a seat on the state Supreme Court for an extra two years.
Reader View · Shared by 52, including Scott Santens, Karl Groves (he/him), Trey Tweets Into the Void, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Kevin M. Kruse, Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸, Adrian Roselli 🗯
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Current Affairs
Make Billionaires Republicans Again ❧ Current Affairs
Current Affairs
5 min read · May 19th · It’s a good sign for the Democratic Party that Elon Musk doesn’t want to be a member.
Reader View · Shared by 120
The Guardian
The Trumpian right keeps pushing rule of law to the brink. But the law is winning
The Guardian
3 min read · Apr 28th · Some Republicans in Congress allegedly considered using martial law to keep Trump in office. Thankfully our institutions have held the line
Guardian US
The ‘straight, white, Christian, suburban mom’ taking on Republicans at their own game
Guardian US
7 min read · May 24th · Mallory McMorrow’s riposte to a hurtful slander that she wanted to ‘groom’ children went viral and has been hailed as a midterms blueprint for Democrats
Reader View · Shared by 74
The New Yorker
A Role Model for the Midterms
The New Yorker
4 min read · May 1st · Democrats need to fight back against the Republicans’ phony culture war. Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow showed how.
Reader View · Shared by 77, including Maria Bustillos
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The Washington Post
Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.
The Washington Post
8 min read · From 2016 · Republicans have become more extreme than Democrats.
Reader View · Shared by 46, including Jay Rosen, Barry Ritholtz, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Matthias Lampe, Scott Monty, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Deborah Blum, James Fallows, Mathew Ingram, Dan Gillmor
The New York Times
In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
The New York Times
4 min read · From 2020 · One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”
Reader View · Shared by 132, including George Conway🇺🇦, Scott McLeod, Mathew Ingram, Richard Deitsch, Elizabeth Picciuto, Guy Kawasaki, Joshua Benton, Michael Clemens, Nigel Warburton 🧡 #RejoinEU 🇺🇦, Barbra Streisand, W. David Stephenson
The Washington Post
Georgia’s secretary of state says fellow Republicans are pressuring him to find ways to exclude legal ballots
The Washington Post
4 min read · 2020-11-16 · In a wide-ranging interview, Brad Raffensperger expressed exasperation for a string of baseless accusations by President Trump and his allies about Georgia’s vote.
Reader View · Shared by 127, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, DON’T PANIC, Carl Zimmer, BenYT, Jennifer Ouellette, Adrian Roselli 🗯, Ernie Smith, Augie Ray, Matthew Turland, Jason Stanley, Julia Ioffe, Marshall Shepherd, Deborah Blum, Matthias Lampe, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Steve Silberman, Kara Swisher, Kainaz Amaria
The New Yorker
New Evidence Emerges of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica’s Role in Brexit
The New Yorker
7 min read · From 2018 · The Trump strategist and controversial Big Data company communicated about raising U.S. funds for Brexit in 2015.
Reader View · Shared by 137, including Jochen Burkhard, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Christopher Lauer, Natacha Quester-Séméon Salomon, Javi Cantón, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺🇦🇺, Paulmears, Brad Brooks, luis antónio santos, Draven, Bjorn Larsen, Dan Gillmor, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Helmi, Henning von Vogelsang, Michael Seemann, Charles Baldwin
The Wall Street Journal
Democrats and Republicans Aren’t Just Divided. They Live in Different Worlds.
The Wall Street Journal
2 min read · From 2019 · The two parties represent radically different slices of the American economy.
Shared by 24, including Nathan Baschez, Shazna Nessa, Steve Case, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Aleksandra Wisniewska
Current Affairs
Make Billionaires Republicans Again ❧ Current Affairs
Current Affairs
5 min read · May 19th · It’s a good sign for the Democratic Party that Elon Musk doesn’t want to be a member.
Reader View · Shared by 120
Pew Research Fact Tank
The polarization in today’s Congress has roots that go back decades
Pew Research Fact Tank
6 min read · Mar 10th · On average, Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.
Reader View · Shared by 180, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Amy Walter, Julia Ioffe, Eli Pariser 🏞📲, Karen K. Ho, Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷, Zoë McLaren, PhD, David Frum, Joshua Benton, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Brian Klaas, Kevin M. Kruse, Nils Hitze, Barry Ritholtz, Shaun King, Jake Archibald, Azeem Azhar
The New Yorker
What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?
The New Yorker
7 min read · From 2018 · Donald Trump is reminiscent of Kaiser Wilhelm II, during whose reign the upper echelons of the German government began to unravel into a free-for-all.
Reader View · Shared by 126, including Mathew Ingram, Clemens, Andreas Stegmann, DonDahlmann, Stefan T, Anthony Hamelle, Mark Suster, Stephanie A Kowalski, Dominik Grolimund, Florian Hanke 🍎, Raphael Raue, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Kiki, Liv 😷, François-Oli Devaux, Verrückte Geschichte, Henning von Vogelsang, Agustin, Tim Müller
NPR
If Clinton Wins, Republicans Suggest Shrinking Size of Supreme Court
NPR
4 min read · 2020-10-10 · Having gone eight months without considering President Obama's nominee to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court, Senate Republicans are now talking about stiffing any nominee.
Reader View · Shared by 49, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Chris Fralic, Gregory B. Sadler - get your shots!, Chris O'Brien, Dara Kass, MD, Jeff Jarvis, Carl Zimmer, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻