How Kevin McCarthy Set Up His Big Fail 14 Years Ago
On April 15, 2009, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican, brought Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the leader of the House GOP caucus, to a rally in his home town of Bakersfield. It was Tax Day, and...
View ArticleMike Johnson’s Long Flirtation With Christian Nationalism
Bruce Parker remembers a time when he used to talk to the new Republican speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, several times a week. It was the spring of 2015, just weeks before the Supreme Court...
View ArticleTo Make a Documentary About Abortion, They Had to Fight the Right’s War on...
In 2019, when Tracy Droz Tragos started filming Plan C, her new documentary about a network of activists and medical providers helping Americans access abortion pills—which are approved by the FDA but...
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We’re in an Epidemic of Right-Wing Terror. Won’t Someone Tell the Press?
This article first appeared in InTheseTimes magazine’s special issue on the spread of the far Right. “Violence is a part of America’s culture,” the Black Power militant H. Rap Brown once said. ”It is...
View ArticleThe Far-Right Pushes a New Conspiracy Theory to Discredit Jack Smith
A new conspiracy theory rising on the right is being deployed to help Donald Trump. It claims that Jack Smith, the special counsel who is prosecuting Trump for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election...
View ArticleRepublican Senators Who Ditched Their Jobs to Make a Point Can’t Have Those...
The Supreme Court of Oregon on Thursday ruled that 10 Republican and Independent state senators cannot run for reelection this year. Their transgression? Not showing up for work. Since 2019,...
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The Congressman Who Yelled “Lies” During the State of the Union Has a History...
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.) has an obvious problem with anger management. The latest example came on Thursday when the freshman Republican from Wisconsin shouted “lies” at President Joe Biden...
View ArticleEaster Falls on Trans Day of Visibility This Year. The Right Blames Biden.
Across social media, right-wing posters are complaining that President Joe Biden has usurped Easter. “Joe Biden just proclaimed that ‘Transgender Visibility Day’ is on Sunday,” once-presidential...
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This Land Is My Land: Inside the Growing Movement to Fight Conservation
Google “America’s Best Idea” and you’ll find there’s a clear frontrunner: our national parks. The United States has 63 now, including southern swamps and deep mountain canyons and forests of saguaro...
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Minority Rule Is Threatening American Democracy Like Never Before
This story is adapted from Ari Berman’s new book, Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It, which will be published April 23. A day ahead of the third...
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