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survivalism

Prophecies of government tyranny, financial meltdown and violent anarchy featured on Doomsday Preppers are being absorbed into contemporary conservatism.

Dollar bill

Media-savvy conservative think tanks take aim and fire at progressive power bases in the states. 

Dollar bills

Pete Peterson’s $60 million push to sell corporate America’s ruthless austerity agenda.

Simpson and Bowles

Candidates who ran on slashing Medicare and Social Security lost big in November. But that doesn’t stop Pete Peterson from pushing the fantasy that voters’ biggest concern is the deficit.

The “Fix the Debt” campaign is pure astroturf: corporate cash machinery masquerading as a grassroots uprising.

Dire warnings about the deficit don’t add up mathematically. But then, Fix the Debt is not really about the economy, it’s about gutting Medicare, Social Security and other social programs.

Voters at a polling station

A five-decade bipartisan consensus on this key piece of civil rights legislation has collapsed—right when we need its protections more than ever before.

Rick Perlstein joins Bryce Covert and George Zornick to explore the serpentine shifts and strange bedfellows of gun control politics. 

It’s tempting to let the GOP continue its slide toward irrelevance—but that would deny this country the robust political debate we need.

Farmworkers

Refusing to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, Republicans are leaving rape victims with few options.

Blogs

The illogical argument that women should be armed to stop rape comes out of a right-wing political culture that doesn’t listen to women's voices.

March 12, 2013

A surprising number of conservatives backed Rand Paul's filibuster. How much of that was sincere?

March 9, 2013

President Obama wined and dined Republicans to talk policy bargains. Who’s getting served?

March 8, 2013

Are you a woman, person of color, or anyone who isn't a well-off white male? The GOP is for you!

March 5, 2013

Mitt Romney blames bad messaging, but the reality is his proposals were out of touch, especially with minorities.

March 5, 2013

Calling the sequester bluff was par for the course for a party that hates popular government programs.

March 4, 2013

Desperate to seem relevant again, the Fox host has been trying his best to manufacture news. 

March 1, 2013

Groupthink has misled us to belive that austerity will bring economic growth. What suggestion will finally alert us to the ticking of so many other issues that we've blocked out?

February 22, 2013

The political press doesn't understand just how differently the right thinks—it's scientifically proven.

February 21, 2013