Crooked Bough News Round-up

— A new book-ban fiasco in Florida reveals the monster DeSantis created

 

at 3/29/23 5:15am

How the governor's school censorship regime will lead to more purges, crackdowns and hysteria.

— On guns, conservatives are winning. This nightmare is the result.

 

at 3/28/23 12:35pm

They've gotten almost everything they wanted, but even they won't claim it has rid us of this terror.

— In Michigan, an agenda countering the anti-woke GOP frenzy takes shape

 

at 3/27/23 5:30am

How repeal of a "right to work" law suggests a response to the GOP's reactionary turn.

— Democrats should stop squandering money on glamorous lost causes

 

at 3/27/23 5:15am

The party is wasting less of its money on quixotic elections. But it still needs to invest more in the long term.

— Don’t be fooled by the GOP crusade against ‘woke Wall Street’

 

at 3/23/23 6:07am

Everything Republicans are saying about ESG investing is bogus — and so is the idea that they've undergone an ideological shift.

— Jim Jordan’s sordid attack on possible Trump charges demands an answer

 

at 3/22/23 7:02am

GOP abuses of power in Trump's defense could backfire — if Democrats exploit them.

— Kevin McCarthy’s desperate plea to MAGA reveals a glaring GOP failure

 

at 3/20/23 11:42am

GOP voters have been primed, by Republicans themselves, for Trump's calls for protest against an indictment.

— What a new 2nd Amendment could look like

 

at 3/20/23 4:15am

Laws are being struck down left and right. But what would it look like if we wrote a contemporary Second Amendment?

— I don’t care if DeSantis eats pudding with his fingers

 

at 3/18/23 6:00am

Ron DeSantis's pudding fingers are just the latest candidate food flub. Why do we care?

— Stop judging presidential candidates by the way they eat

 

at 3/18/23 6:00am

Ron DeSantis's pudding fingers are just the latest candidate food flub. Why do we care?

— This sleeper race could wreck MAGA’s 2024 dreams

 

at 3/17/23 4:00am

How an obscure judicial race could create complications for Donald Trump and MAGA in 2024.

— As Biden mulls family detentions, warnings from inside grow louder

 

at 3/15/23 4:45am

Some officials resist bringing back the moral stain that sullied the Trump and Obama administrations.

— How much does charisma matter? DeSantis is putting it to the test.

 

at 3/14/23 4:30am

Most presidents could draw people to them or hold a crowd rapt. Not the governor of Florida.

— Ron DeSantis’s book ban mania targets Jodi Picoult — and she hits back

 

at 3/10/23 7:49am

“Martin County is the first to ban 20 of my books at once,” Picoult said. The list includes "The Storyteller," about the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor.

— Thank you, Kevin McCarthy and Tucker Carlson

 

at 3/9/23 4:15am

The House speaker and the Fox News personality tried to rewrite history. Instead, they clarified it.

— Revealing Fox News texts point to the right’s long war on the truth

 

at 3/8/23 10:49am

The right-wing project of creating captive audiences dates back more than half a century.

— The GOP primaries are all about ‘retribution’ against MAGA’s enemies

 

at 3/8/23 4:00am

Can you build a winning presidential campaign on nothing but revenge?

— Walgreens’s surrender to the GOP should light a fire under Democrats

 

at 3/7/23 9:14am

The Democratic Party needs to find its footing against reactionary red-state culture-warring.

— The GOP’s epic defeat on health care is laid bare in North Carolina

 

at 3/3/23 12:34pm

In Congress, Republicans want to slash Medicaid. At the state level, momentum is moving in the opposite direction.

— On student loans, conservatives turn ‘fairness’ upside down

 

at 3/2/23 11:55am

The right is very concerned about whether helping struggling people is "unfair" to somebody else.

— Finally, Democrats appear ready to wage war on Fox News

 

at 3/2/23 5:15am

A series of texts involving network personalities requires Democrats to rethink their approach to information warfare.

As of 3/29/23 4:37pm. Last new 3/29/23 6:55am.