This infuriated me so very much - the people who called her anti-Semitic are WILLFULLY misinterpreting her (AND MANY AMERICANS) wish to repeal Citizens United and get dirty lobbyist money out of politics and away from the potential of influencing our elected Representatives (who are supposed to be repping US not…

Yeah, a huge amount of the asymetry between the parties is driven by the fact that only one of the parties cares about procedural norms. Respect for the other party, recognition that its victory is legitimate, and a willingness to listen and compromise in order to secure the consent of the minority. These are all…

In this case, I don’t think it’s that they can’t recognize it, it’s that they’re paid not to. A significant portion of the Democratic party is just as beholden to the old guard and maintaining the status quo as the GOP. (To be clear: those establishment Democrats are still far preferable to the GOP, this is not a…

It’s so frustrating that most of the Democratic Party is incapable of recognizing bad faith in action. Even if any given elected Democrat thought that what Omar said was anti-Semitic (it wasn’t), they should’ve made it absolutely clear that only one party is the preferred party of actual anti-Semitic terrorists and…

You have trafficked in hate your whole life—against Jews, Muslims, Indigenous, immigrants, black people and more. I learned from people impacted by my words. When will you?

I couldn’t agree with you more. These “portrait of a Trump voter” think pieces are no longer brave or compelling. They’re boring and overdone and obvious, and worst of all, they falsely bolster the wave of support that Trump has over his own base as some sort of bucolic piece of Americana. These people are not lovely…

The Editor Demographic is a deeply bubble-wrapped set of people. I know them well. One of them was good enough to get drunk and admit to my face that she wished she grew up like me (in Trump country) because her life (of urban and suburban international homes) was boring. What these people do not want to admit is that…

Reminds me of a time in H.S. where this football player who was regularly bothering me was blocking my way to the door when I was trying to get to class. He kept moving to block me and I didn’t want to be late, so I kicked him in the leg. 

“A girl purposely broke her own arm just to get another person in trouble.”

OR how about doing a ground breaking expose on what the girls in that school have to put up with in terms of Trump’s america.

“Part 1 Of a New Series”

Former Hill staffer here. I never worked for Amy, but I did counsel a handful of young women who did.

That’s all I was thinking— how could they not talk to the girl involved? I guarantee it was more than a door opening and shutting! This dude is an admitted misogynist and you, a journalist, are going to let him spew his lies in a national publication without fact-checking?? I’m so sick of treating these trump…

“It happened once when my mom was in high school. A girl purposely broke her own arm just to get another person in trouble.”

Fielden’s editor’s note is titled “Why Your Ideological Echo Chamber Isn’t Just Bad For You”—with the subtitle, “it’s bad for your kids”

“That girl could go home,” Ryan recalls his mom saying, “slit the whole side of her cheek with a knife, and come to school Monday and say, ‘Hey, look what he did to me.’”

The quote about the mother’s advice is just disturbing. The whole story around that quote is ridiculous. How about teach your kids not to be garbage human beings, not that everyone (especially teenage girls) is out to get them? How is the mother’s first reaction to this that the girl could lie or do something to frame…

“Ryan is convinced that if it had been a fight between two girls, things would’ve been different. He has this idea that since I’m a woman, if I were in the same situation, I could do whatever I wanted. I could pull out a knife and stab a guy, and I wouldn’t get in trouble.”

Is Ryan’s family rich? Like legitimately rich? Like net worth of at least $5 million rich?

An article like this would be fine if perhaps it was about two teens with differing opinions comparing and contrasting and maybe letting them talk to each other. This kinda shit is pointless.