David Atkins

A recent expose sheds doubts on the group’s methods.

A thought struck me today as I watched a bit of Fox News both before and after the Mueller indictments hit: the network may actually be hurting Trump by giving him a false sense of confidence. It’s common knowledge that Trump watches Fox News religiously, especially Fox and Friends in the morning. He takes frequent […]

When the tell-all books are finally written, this week of Republican talking points will constitute entire chapters of infamy. Knowing that indictments were coming from special counsel Robert Mueller, Republicans and their conservative media friends have been engaged in a remarkable series of attempts to deflect blame and muddy the waters. Unable to attack the […]

There is a a particularly repulsive footnote to the explosion of public consciousness around sexual abuse and exploitation caused by the Weinstein revelations. Religious social conservatives have been hard at work arguing that Hollywood libertinism, liberal sexual mores and the sexual revolution itself are to blame for the behavior of the Weinsteins of the world. […]

Each hour seems to bring new and revolting revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s decades of alleged rape and sexual predation. In the wake of the news has come a lot of soul searching: how did we let this happen? Why didn’t people expose him? Is it a Hollywood problem, or pervasive in society? How many more […]

Trump is both so vindictive and ineffectual that he has reverted to the tactics of a small-time organized crime boss.

The challenge from the California’s state senate president could help create a Democratic realignment.

Dear Republican Party, Please, if you love this country and human life at all, take the president’s phone and lock his twitter account before he gets us all killed. These are the latest insane tweets from the President of the United States: I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting […]