Publication: Slate

Slate

For decades now, the most successful conservative broadcast media sources have sought to isolate their audiences by constantly sowing distrust of any news outlet or official entity that exists outside of the hard right. The unifying theme is the notion that there are no depths to which the deep state, liberal media, and elitist professoriate will not stoop in order to advance their godless, anti-American, and culturally transgressive agendas.

Slate

The Herman Cain Award concept is simple and ugly. A single entry to the subreddit consists of anywhere between two and 16 screenshots of a social media profile (usually Facebook, with last names scrubbed out) belonging to someone who died after aggressively rejecting precautions that could have protected them and others.

Slate

Trump is, in short, encouraging his supporters to do the work of local police, federal officials, and the National Guard, if—in their frustration with those entities—they feel the work isn’t being done…He is not just declaring war on government. He is declaring war on how government is chosen. 

Slate

The government could ease this fall’s child care crisis and fight COVID with one simple trick.

Slate

It’s not yet clear if or when President Donald Trump heard or read the intelligence report that Russia was paying bounties to Taliban militias for killing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. But whichever version of the story is true, he and his senior advisers come off looking very bad—immoral, vaguely traitorous, astoundingly incompetent, or all three.

Slate

The obsession with individualism and the misinterpretation of constitutional freedom collide into a germy mess.