Republicans and the Magnetic Attraction of Vladimir Putin - WhoWhatWhy

Republicans used to be violently anti-communist. Now they’re deciding that they have more in common with the Kremlin than they do with NATO.

Jim Jordan Embodies Everything Wrong With Today’s GOP - WhoWhatWhy

Apart from maybe George Santos, Jim Jordan might be the least qualified person to be House speaker. And, in the eyes of today’s GOP, that just might make him the perfect man for the job.

'Voucher Scams': Education Savings Accounts Bring Republican Civil War | Dallas Observer

Greg Abbott has decided that his school voucher-like program is a hill he'll die on, even if it means battling other Republicans in the process.

The Media Has to Stop Grading Donald Trump on a Curve - WhoWhatWhy

Trump would likely not have become president without the help of “the enemies of the people,” as he likes to call reporters, and their symbiotic relationship continues even now.

Trump’s Terrifying Words and Numbers - WhoWhatWhy

“I alone can fix it” doesn’t work unless you can get massive buy-in to the idea that it’s terribly broken.

The Questions Isn’t Whether the Gov’t Will Be Shut Down, It’s When It Will Reopen - WhoWhatWhy

You can’t govern with if a sizeable chunk of the members of your caucus want to destroy the government from within, are totally unqualified for their jobs, and are more interested in being right-wing media figures than doing the work.

Republicans Prove Joe Biden Was Vice President and Little Else - WhoWhatWhy

In their impeachment inquiry, one Republican after another trotted out the same unproven allegations that “the Bidens” committed crimes, without specifying what those crimes were, providing evidence, or even showing that Joe Biden was involved in any way at all.

Can America Survive Its Own Constitution? The Tyranny of the Minority - WhoWhatWhy

Is American democracy at a breaking point? How the Constitution enables minority rule, why distrust in institutions is rising, and what’s at stake for the future of democracy.

Rupert Murdoch Was the Drug Dealer Who Got Conservatives Hooked on Lies - WhoWhatWhy

Name anything that is bad in the United States, and there is a good chance that Murdoch has had a hand in causing it, making it worse, or profiting from it.

Court Reform Now to End the Justice Deficit - WhoWhatWhy

The Supreme Court and the entire justice system do not provide timely and equal justice. America needs to arrest fewer people, have more judges at all levels, and improve facilities for housing inmates.

A Desperate Donald Trump Makes Dangerous Threats - WhoWhatWhy

The man who wants to be president again as a get out of jail free card is threatening to "do things to you that have never been done before.” We don't think he means a foot massage.

Supreme Court reverses affirmative action, gutting race-conscious admissions : NPR

The decision reverses decades of precedent upheld over the years by narrow court majorities that included Republican-appointed justices.

Birth certificate rule is unconstitutional, judge holds state in contempt, liable for entire suit – Daily Montanan

Judge Michael Moses declares Senate Bill 280 unconstitutional and holds the State of Montana in contempt for not following the orders of the court and the state's Supreme Court.

'I'm A Nobody And He Calls My Employer?' Elon Musk Silences Tesla Critics By Deactivating Twitter Accounts And Reaching Out To Their Employers

Twitter Inc. made headlines this week when it suspended the account of Aaron Greenspan, a well-known critic of Tesla Inc. and its CEO Elon Musk. See Next: This Startup Invented Programmable, Drinkable Plastic That Dissolves In Water In 60 Hours Greenspan, founder of PlainSite, found his online prese..

Machinists Union Membership Votes Overwhelmingly to Endorse President Biden for Second Term - IAMAW

A Good Month for Voting Rights - WhoWhatWhy

It has been an unusually good month for voting rights. First, the US Supreme Court passed up an opportunity to kill off the federal Voting Rights Act and ordered Alabama’s Legislature to redraw a discriminatory congressional map. Then the Washington State Supreme Court upheld the state’s own Voting ..