Twenty-two years have slipped by since The Matrix was first released. Our brains, in the interim, have been beaten and battered by the internet, shattering our realities, obliterating our beliefs, transforming our loved ones into unrecognizable mutations of their former selves. Nothing that’s happening is actually happening, they tell| Bad Faith Times
The love for their children was in every gesture, every word, every look. You could sense it – feel it – even from a distance. A mom and dad, dressed in what appeared to be used clothing – him in an oversized collared shirt with a small hole in the shoulder, wearing oversized| Bad Faith Times
We were meant to believe Texas Republican lawmakers cared about the health and safety of people seeking abortion services. We were told over and over by Oklahoma Republicans that they fretted night and day about the cleanliness of abortion clinics. State by state, Republicans brought forward the most laughable, insulting| Bad Faith Times
You would think providing food for children would be a bipartisan issue, or even a nonpolitical one. You would, of course, be wrong about this. Making sure kids get food every day was the goal of Minnesota Democrats when they took it upon themselves to pass legislation providing free school| Bad Faith Times
In what could very well be a deleted scene from 2006’s Idiocracy, but what is instead a real clip from our increasingly dumb and dangerous political landscape, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Missouri recently used a flamethrower to set books aflame as giddy supporters cheered on. This scene could| Bad Faith Times
Your political worldview invariably comes down to whether you think the point of politics is to be right, or to win. Being right – winning the argument, taking the crown in the so-called marketplace of ideas – has long been the goal of the American center-left. The facts will prevail, the thinking| Bad Faith Times
Republican attacks against Kamala Harris are going to get really weird and really gross.| Bad Faith Times