Adam Serwer

In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.

They believe that right-wing speech should be sacrosanct, and liberal speech officially disfavored.

When Vance says he wants only a “minimum national standard,” don't be fooled. That means a ban.

In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.

MAGA adherents deny and dismiss what they are a part of, but they believe Trump's lies, and will support him until the end.

No matter what the Supreme Court says, the president is not a king.

The incoming president wants to do things his voters have not embraced.

Anything is forgivable as long as it comes from people they like.

Some conservatives are embracing the villains in what are supposed to be cautionary tales.

In every Judge Joe Dredd story I've ever read, there is at least one almost comically obvious moment when the author makes clear that the protagonist is a jackbooted fascist and not someone to admire. This may come across to the average reader as heavy-handed, but when the richest man in the world misreads the character as heroic, you can see why such heavy-handedness is sometimes necessary.