Abbreviated pundit roundup: This is the GOP
There’s a lot of opining in the opinion pages about whether disgraceful Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is the future of the Republican Party. The conservative response to her outrageous beliefs...
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Insurrection with impunity
One month ago, staffers for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi piled office furniture against a door, sculpting a makeshift barrier of desks, chairs, and tables. They crouched silent and motionless like...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Holding Republicans accountable
We begin today’s roundup with Michelle Goldberg’s take at The New York Times on how to hold Donald Trump accountable:To Raskin, a former constitutional law professor, this is no comfort. “You’ve got to...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Texas, Trump's taxes, and more
We begin today’s roundup with analysis of the crisis in Texas. First up, Paul Krugman at The New York Times:The collapse of the Texas power grid didn’t just reveal a few shortcomings. It showed that...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The Republican attacks on the right to vote
Knowing that they are losing America’s support in the policy marketplace of ideas, Republicans are working feverishly post-election to attack the right to vote. We begin today’s roundup on this issue...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The courage to fix government
We begin today’s roundup with Eugene Robinson’s piece at The Washington Post on the lesson Democrats should learn from passage of the covid-19 rescue bill:Here is the lesson Democrats should learn from...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Ending filibuster abuse, the GOP attack on voting...
We begin today’s roundup with Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson’s piece at The Atlantic on Republican leader Mitch McConnell and the filibuster:The filibuster is in trouble. President Joe Biden has come...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: It's Infrastructure Week (for real!)
The focus this week is on the Biden administration’s bold infrastructure plan, which at $2.3 trillion, invests in our crumbling roads and bridges, power supply infrastructure, and more. First up, a big...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Climate change, the economy, and more
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its editorial on President Biden’s take on climate change:Anyone with the energy to slog through acres of verbiage will find the elements of a...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Chauvin trial, the damage of Trumpism, and more
We begin today’s roundup with analysis of the Derek Chauvin trial. Ibram Kendi, writing at The Atlantic:Black and brown people are told in endless ways by fraternal orders of police and their powerful...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The Biden economy, Republican voter suppression...
We begin today’s roundup with Paul Krugman at The New York Times on how the Biden administration is investing in economic opportunity for all:How do we know that we should be spending more on families?...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: In break with Cheney and reality, GOP further...
With House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy backing the ousting of Rep. Liz Cheney from House GOP leadership because she acknowledges the reality that the election was not stolen, the Republican Party...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The Biden-Harris administration, Roe v. Wade, and...
We begin today’s roundup with Peter Slevin at The New Yorker, who interviews progressive Representative Pramila Jayapal on the successes of the Biden-Harris administration so far:As Joe Biden laid out...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Democracy under attack
We begin today’s roundup with Sam Brodey at The Daily Beast and his analysis of Senator Joe Manchin’s refusal to entertain filibuster reform:On nearly everything of consequence on Capitol Hill these...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The Big Lie as core GOP belief, the For the...
Reid Epstein and Lisa Lerer details the depths of delusion in the new crop of Republican candidates around the country:Across the country, a rising class of Republican challengers has embraced the...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Senate Republicans to oppose protecting and...
Nicholas Fondos at The New York Times details Republican opposition to voting rights and what we can expect in today’s key vote regarding the For The People Act:A push by Democrats to enact the most...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Believing the Big Lie, Biden's America, and more
We begin today’s roundup with an incredibly important article by David Rothkopf at The Daily Beast on the Big Lie and why so many Americans have lost touch with reality:Poll after poll shows that one...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Disinformation, vaccines, and more
We begin today’s roundup with Catherine Rampell at The Washington Post who writes about vaccine hesitancy and disinformation:On the one hand, yes, social media companies absolutely still can and must...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The Big Lie, the pandemic, and more
We begin today’s roundup with Jane Mayer’s deep dive at The New Yorker on the big money behind the Big Lie about the 2020 election:Although the Arizona audit may appear to be the product of local...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Florida's pandemic folly, climate change, and more
We begin today's roundup with Beth Levin at Vanity Fair who analyzes what’s going on in Florida:Quick: You’re the governor of a state where COVID-19 is literally out of control, reportedly accounting...
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