Month: March 2021

Our Long National Nightmare

House Republicans propose solution to DC statehood: strip it of its electoral votes

D.C. residents have been vocal for decades about how the city has a larger population than several states but limited self-government of its own. In recent years, they’ve gained the attention of Democrats nationwide who have slowly taken up the cause for D.C. statehood. Democrats might be into D.C. statehood because they’ve been coming around to Puerto Rico statehood (arguably more so than Puerto Ricans … Continue reading House Republicans propose solution to DC statehood: strip it of its electoral votes

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Feature

The right wants you to think cancel culture is a bigger problem than it is

Every year, we add a couple new terms to the zeitgeist. In January 2020, we brought both “awesomesauce” and “weak sauce” into the Oxford English Dictionary, which was probably a great sign that the year was going to be swell. But no word has splashed down and stuck around quite like “problematic,” which broke into the mainstream around 2014, lodged itself in the cultural consciousness, … Continue reading The right wants you to think cancel culture is a bigger problem than it is

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Politics

The world’s greatest negotiator can’t get his own party to take him seriously

Republicans have made it very clear that they are going to be the party of Donald Trump. They are going to put Donald Trump’s name and face on everything. They are going to sing his praises. They are going to rope his supporters into their other campaigns because a vote for Republican congressional hopeful John Doe is a vote for Donald Trump, and you can … Continue reading The world’s greatest negotiator can’t get his own party to take him seriously

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You Asked

You Asked: How hard is it to defeat an incumbent in a primary?

On Patreon (really, go support us on Patreon), we ask supporters to occasionally toss questions over to us that they want answered that are a little bit harder to get an answer to than something you might ask on Quora. For this, the fourth piece in our new series You Asked, everyone is suddenly interested in primary challenges for some reason. I’ve seen a lot of … Continue reading You Asked: How hard is it to defeat an incumbent in a primary?

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Our Long National Nightmare

March 4: Corporations, Congress, and Conspiracies

Prior to the 20th Amendment, the designated day for presidential inaugurations was March 4. This, like much of our Constitutionally-determined election schedule, was based on the realities of travel in a nation where the horse was by far the fastest and most reliable way to get around. Once it was possible for news to travel by telegraph and presidents-elect to travel by train, lawmakers decided … Continue reading March 4: Corporations, Congress, and Conspiracies

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Feature

GOP efforts to stymie voting demonstrate that they know they lost in 2020

Republican candidates, by and large, did not have a great 2020. Georgia ousted its Republican senators, Trump-backed Republicans struggled in moderate Congressional districts, and Trump himself lost the White House. For the months that followed – and as recently as this week, at CPAC – Trump and his cronies have maintained that wide-scale election fraud was behind their defeats. But in state legislatures around the … Continue reading GOP efforts to stymie voting demonstrate that they know they lost in 2020

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