This week, outgoing Congressman Beto O’Rourke said he would not rule out running for president in 2020. While a tantalizing prospect, should Beto run, he may be missing an opportunity to build something else far more powerful in the long run.... To continue reading this article, ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 30, 2018

"Alabama's the Confederacy," Fran Liebowitz said on Real Time last year, correcting Bill Maher's assertion that it was the heartland. Its long association with slavery, racism, and pedophilic Senate candidates will take a long time to shake. Its current governor, Kay Ivey, ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

The state of Alabama continues to stain the nation as it shows us one of the many ways America’s racist legacy persists. Every fourth Monday in April, Alabama consciously chooses to honor hate and the myth of white supremacy by celebrating Confederate Memorial Day – a state ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 9, 2018

Today we honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Through the power of his words and his actions, MLK inspired people to put their lives on the line in the fight for equality between the races, a struggle that continues to this day. When we remember him, we should remember both ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

When I wrote my article yesterday about voter suppression in Alabama, I was resigned that Yellowhammer State would elect Roy Moore - a racist, misogynistic, pedophile - to the Senate seat formerly held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. But as I read reports on Twitter about the ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

There are two possible outcomes for today's Senate race in Alabama, and both spell disaster for the GOP in both the short and long term. While Donald Trump and his band of lunatics in the White House are betting big on accused pedophile and notorious bigot Roy Moore, the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The Senate race in Alabama to fill the seat once occupied by Jeff Sessions is a microcosm of last year's presidential race. On one side we have Doug Jones, a sane, good-natured liberal; on the other we have Roy Moore, a rightier-than-right-wing Republican who believes, among ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

Today, Donald Trump endorsed Republican Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore – religious fanatic, anti-gay marriage, Islamophobic, pedophiliac Roy Moore, the most dangerous Senate candidate since David Duke. For the past few weeks, the President has soft-pedaled around a firm ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

When you're a 70 year old sex offender running for political office, it's probably not a great idea to engage in a Twitter war with a professional comic who is a) smarter than you, b) funnier than you, and c) not a sex offender.  But no, Alabama's Roy Moore seems to think he can ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 1, 2017

The Federalist just became the latest in a growing list of right wingers to not only support Republican Roy Moore, the child molesting Senate candidate from Alabama, but also to actually defend the practice of grown men sexually assaulting underage girls. No, that is not a typo. ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 30, 2017

[SATIRE WARNING: THIS IS SATIRE. SORT OF...] Controversial Alabama Republican Senate Candidate and two time former State Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore released a how to guide on “courtship and feminine etiquette”. “I felt, with the way my name has been maligned in the media, ...read more

• By Frederic Poag
  Nov 9, 2018

If you haven't heard by now, a robocall has been making the rounds in Alabama claiming to be from a Washington Post reporter named "Bernie Bernstein". "Bernie" is offering money for dirt on Roy Moore, presumably with the intent of ending his run for the Senate. Of course, no ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 9, 2018

What the fuck just happened in Alabama? Roy Moore, the bible-thumping super-Christian was accused by three women (so far) of being "romantically pursued" by him in his 30s while they were in their teens. While Moore is denying this, one Alabama Republican doesn't see a problem: ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 9, 2018

Time and time again, black people in this country have been a piñata for hatred and the recipients of brutality and disdain. As a group, black people have experienced two hundred years of enslavement and its impact on millions of families has been devastating. America engaged ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Feb 17, 2016

"Who has the right to take what God’s given a state?" -- Alabama Public Service Commission commissioner-elect Chip Beeker, standing against new national EPA regulations by extolling the virtues of God-given coal At a news conference yesterday -- because apparently Alabama's ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

Alabama might rank last in brain health among the 50 states, but there's really no excusing the massive brainfart a Christian ministry recently had. For some reason, Life Savers Ministries in Opelika, Alabama thought it'd be a great idea to quote Adolf Hitler on a billboard ...read more

• By Michael Luciano
  Feb 17, 2016

Rick Santorum won Tuesday's Alabama and Mississippi GOP presidential primaries, with Southern conservatives again rejecting Mitt Romney, who earlier in the day said Santorum's campaign was reaching a "desperate end." Newt Gingrich, who had staked his campaign on a Southern ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Matt Taibbi on Republican Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bacchus's new found populist approach to financial regulation: Spencer Bachus to positioning himself as a champion of Wall Steeet reform is, of course, hilarious. Not only was he one of the leaders of the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018