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The ‘silencing’ of Zooey Zephyr, Montana’ first trans state legislator, has been branded “absurd” and “anti-democratic”. On Wednesday (26 April), Republicans voted to ban Zephyr from the House floor for the remainder of the 2023 legislative session. She will be allowed to vote remotely. The trans politician has been targeted with censure calls since 18 April, when she told lawmakers who backed

Something is broken in our politics. Just about everyone knows it, but it can be hard to put your finger on what it is.

As the media attempt to grapple with this felt reality, they reach over and over for the same word: polarization. That, we're told, is the shorthand for what has gone wrong. Where once the country had its share of conservative Democrats, liberal Republicans, and mushy

On Friday, CNN’s John Harwood appeared on-screen to do what he often does—provide reporting and analysis of the day’s events. In this case, Harwood’s focus was a speech given by Joe Biden about the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump and his many allies within the Republican Party.

“The core point [Biden] made in that political speech about a threat to democracy is true,” Harwood

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman’s proposal that Joe Biden shouldn’t debate President Donald Trump unless “a real-time fact-checking team” is part of the mix is an ironic illustration of the closed-mindedness of the left.

Why would Friedman want a candidate who is eager to contrast his views with Trump’s to impose conditions that would make a debate less likely, unless, of course,