The right can invent alternate political realities to their blackened hearts' content, but without judges to play their sly bad faith game, none of it matters. None of it has teeth. This is why the right wing for the better part of a half century has been singularly focused on| Bad Faith Times
House Republicans, in their bad-faith attempt to pretend they give a shit about the nation’s debt, are once again pushing the nation to the brink of financial catastrophe. Forgetting how badly this blew up in their faces during the Obama years, Republicans are refusing to raise the country's debt| Bad Faith Times
This is the second in a series analyzing The Anatomy of Fascism. Click here to read Part One. Our sixth grade class election was a bitter affair. It pitted a bookish girl named Beth against my buddy Kevin, a jovial, popular class clown who surprised us all when he answered| Bad Faith Times
When the right deals in good faith, we must listen. It reveals everything about their actual goals and clarifies the stakes for this and future elections.| Bad Faith Times
For my entire adult life I've been told that I hate America. Conservatives have informed me that I hate my freedom (I like it just fine), I hate capitalism (guilty as charged), I hate the troops (it's the imperialism I dislike, really), and I hate the founders (well, OK, that's| Bad Faith Times
I’m halfway through Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism and I take no pleasure in reporting the United States is checking a lot of fascist boxes. Too many. Way too many. Sometimes I find myself squirming in my seat as I read the timely tome, hoping – praying| Bad Faith Times