Abbreviated pundit roundup: Latest analysis of Russia's aggression in Ukraine
The Washington Post editorial board writes that “war is likely” and argues for immediate sanctions on Russia, not just the breakaway regions of Ukraine: This is the way the postwar world ends, and...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Ukraine, Russia, and the fight for democratic values
We begin today’s roundup with analysis by Emily Tamkin in The New York Times on how the American right has admired Vladimir Putin even as — and perhaps because — of his undemocratic actions:The...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Ukraine update, Trump and Putin, and more
We begin today’s roundup with analysis of the Russian invasion and attacks in Ukraine, starting with an op-ed by Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in The Washington Post:Of course, evil has...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson deserves to be on the...
We begin today’s roundup with analysis from John Cassidy at The New Yorker of yesterday’s opening hearing for the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court:At the start of a...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The Bucha massacre, the labor movement, and more
We begin today’s roundup with an analysis of the horrific developments in Ukraine as Russia’s atrocities are coming to light. First up, The Washington Post editorial board:The Bucha massacre marks a...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: January 6th committee updates
We begin today’s roundup with an analysis of the latest developments from the January 6th Committee from Ben Jacobs at New York magazine:After a quiet few months, some of the committee’s investigation...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump judge bans masks for travel, InfoWars...
Not surprisingly, a Trump-appointed Florida judge has banned masks for travel. We begin today's roundup with an analysis of the decision from Lawrence Gostin at The Daily Beast:On Monday, Judge Kathryn...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Analysis of leaked draft of opinion overturning...
POLITICO has obtained a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, an opinion which if released as is, would allow state abortion bans to immediately take effect across many states. We begin...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Republicans and the fallout from the SCOTUS draft...
We begin today’s roundup with Mike DeBonis and Josh Dawsey’s take at The Washington Post on the Republican midterm gameplan:One week after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would eliminate...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The right's hate machine
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times editorial on the Buffalo attack:American life is punctuated by mass shootings that are routinely described as idiosyncratic. But these attacks are not...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: January 6th hearings preview
We begin today’s roundup with a preview of this week's pivotal hearing from the January 6th Committee: More than 500 days removed from the violent attack on the US Capitol, the committee investigating...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Jan. 6th committee reveals extent of Trump's...
We begin today’s roundup with Eugene Robinson’s analysis at The Washington Post of the January 6th committee’s damning evidence of Donald Trump’s lies for profit:Trump’s campaign used the “big lie” to...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Accountability and the January 6th attack
We begin today’s roundup with analysis from Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley at Rolling Stone on Trump’s response to the January 6th hearing so far:With the Justice Department and Jan. 6 committee...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Accountability vs impunity
We begin today’s roundup with analysis of the fall of Boris Johnson and the notion of accountability in a democracy. First up, Michelle Goldberg at The New York Times:For an American liberal, however,...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's extremist plan for January 6th to be...
We begin today’s roundup with a preview of today’s January 6th hearing:The hearing is likely to drill down on the period after states cast their electoral college votes on Dec. 14, 2020, action that...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Post-Roe landscape endangers lives, economic of...
We begin today’s roundup with Jerusalem Demsas at The Atlantic who highlights how Republicans have predictably shifted their focus from “state’s rights” to a national abortion ban: The day that the...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The GOP's candidate problem
We begin today’s roundup with a preview of key primary elections today from Roll Call’s Mary Ellen McIntire and Kate Ackley:Tuesday’s primaries mark the biggest one-day electoral test so far for the 10...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The FBI executes a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago
We begin today’s roundup with analysis of the historic search conducted by the FBI at Mar-a-lago, the residence of Donald Trump. First up, Brian Ellsworth and Sarah Lynch at Reuters:Former President...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Biden's big wins, Republican Senate candidates...
We begin today’s roundup with an op-ed in The Hill by James Roosevelt, Jr. , grandson of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and others on President Biden’s agenda:Democrats are on the verge of a huge...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Holding Trump accountable
We begin today’s roundup with analysis from Jamelle Bouie at The New York Times on accountability for Donald Trump and why sweeping everything under the rug in the name of “unity” or “moving on” isn’t...
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