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Congress’s Least Effective Lawmaker is Openly Asking for the Speakership
It would be tempting to write that Kevin McCarthy’s historic and ignominious ejection from House Speakership created a power...

Jessiah Eberlin
Oct 5, 20232 min read


Republicans Fail to Stop New Voting Maps From Expanding Black Voter Influence
After an arduous two year legal battle, Black voting rights in Alabama prevailed over the Republican Party’s persistent and...

Jessiah Eberlin
Oct 5, 20232 min read


Biden Continues to Deliver Student Debt Relief Despite Aggressive Conservative Challenges
President Biden announced the latest tranche of targeted debt cancellation in the form of $9 billion for 125,000 borrowers—bringing the...

Jessiah Eberlin
Oct 5, 20231 min read


MAGA Republicans Want Trump to Be Speaker. He Can’t.
After Kevin McCarthy’s delightfully ignominious—but entirely predictable—ejection from the House Speakership, some conservative...

Jessiah Eberlin
Oct 4, 20232 min read


AOC Shuts Down Andrew Yang’s Dishonest Centrist Talking Points
Recent remarks by 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, 2021 New York City mayoral candidate, and Forward Party founder Andrew Yang...

Jessiah Eberlin
Oct 4, 20232 min read


McCarthy’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day… Was Scheduled A Long Time Ago.
Kevin McCarthy, a nakedly ambitious and unprincipled Republican Congressman, made history yesterday—kinda. He now enjoys the distinction...

Jessiah Eberlin
Oct 4, 20233 min read


As the MAGA Circus Tent Collapses, Joe Biden Delivers
Today, as the Republican civil war threatens to make Kevin McCarthy’s Speakership a casualty, President Biden has made a positive...

Jessiah Eberlin
Oct 3, 20232 min read


AOC is right: there are NO moderate Republicans!
After narrowly averting a painful, unnecessary government shutdown—at least for the next 45 days—many Americans and many professional...

Jessiah Eberlin
Oct 3, 20232 min read


Trump is Publicly Indifferent to post-shutdown MAGA Civil War
After weeks of risky brinkmanship and unnecessary posturing, Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy at last relented and agreed...

Jessiah Eberlin
Oct 3, 20232 min read


Trump blames wrong Bush brother for Iraq War
At a rally in South Carolina on Monday, Donald Trump continued his most recent trend of gaffes, malaprops, and moments of questionable...

Jessiah Eberlin
Oct 2, 20232 min read


Kevin McCarthy is baffled by the very predictable results of his own actions
Six days away from a painful and unnecessary shutdown of the federal government, the person most singularly responsible for it is...

Jessiah Eberlin
Sep 24, 20232 min read


Donald Trump is Not Well
Donald Trump is not well. I’m not speaking cognitively; as I’ve written previously, there’s plenty of reason to question the former...

Jessiah Eberlin
Sep 16, 20232 min read


When it Matters Most, This Sitting President Takes a Stand
Joe Biden made history on Tuesday in the best way possible when he joined a picket line of striking workers in Wayne County, Michigan....

Jessiah Eberlin
Sep 16, 20232 min read


Taylor Swift, Democratic Governor Make Moves to Expand Democracy
The Republican Party’s longstanding allergy to democracy is at serious risk of becoming untreatably chronic, if their reaction to recent...

Jessiah Eberlin
Sep 15, 20232 min read
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