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Swing voters can’t seem to connect present events to the instigating events that happened months ago | Views + Opinions | Orlando

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click to enlarge screengrab via Fox News You get the government you deserve. On Oct. 13, a 15-year-old boy allegedly shot and killed five people,...
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As next summer’s inevitable debt-ceiling crisis approaches, the petulant Freedom Caucus is already threatening default | Views + Opinions | Orlando

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Photo by Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0 Speaker McCarthy will soon find himself on Jim Jordan’s very short leash. CBS News recently estimated that Republicans are...
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Leave it to Florida’s Ron DeSantis to utilize overt racism and abject dehumanization as a national political strategy | Views + Opinions | Orlando

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Photo by Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis I thought by now I’d lost my ability to be shocked by the latest political...
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Fewer Americans than ever profess confidence in the Supreme Court. That’s because we’ve seen them for the political hacks they are | Views + Opinions | Orlando

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On Sept. 12, 2021, Justice Amy Coney Barrett assured an audience at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center — named for the Senate majority leader...
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Biden’s speech ripping MAGA nation shows he finally accepts that the Republican Party he knew is a distant memory | Views + Opinions | Orlando

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photo via White House Official Facebook page It seems that President Biden’s recent speech hurt the feelings of the “fuck your feelings” crowd. Come, friends,...
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The extremist positions and jackass bellicosity required to win a Republican nomination are going to cost the GOP seats this year | Views + Opinions | Orlando

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photo by Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 Poof! Just like that, Ron DeSantis could find himself boxed out when the right redefines its taste...
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A precarious democracy can’t afford to look the other way while self-serving authoritarians pour gas on a fire | Views + Opinions | Orlando

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Photo by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 The west entrance of Mar-a-Lago, currently owned by Donald Trump. There’s a lot we still don’t know about the...