Andrew Sullivan is a Never Trumper. He despises Trump and before that, he had begun criticizing the downward spiral he saw the conservative movement entering that led to Trump. But despite this, Andrew Sullivan is, first and foremost, a white conservative male and so he often ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Dec 20, 2018

To Andrew Sullivan, Kavanaugh behaved like an innocent man during the Senate hearing, but to most victims of sexual assault, he behaved as any guilty person would have done. How can I say this with confidence? Because I was sexually assaulted as a teenager in boarding school in ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Sep 28, 2018

In a bleak warning to America, Andrew Sullivan has penned an important piece looking at the incredibly disturbing behavior of the president over the past couple of weeks -- behavior that looks uncannily like a transition from bumbling buffoon to raging tyrant. Citing Plato's ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The ongoing madness of this administration is bringing the country to the brink, but we might now be seeing the beginnings of a Republican revolt against the president... To continue reading this article, please go here. A Banter Membership gets you access to the magazine and all ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan's latest essay on the state of all things Trump makes for incredibly sobering reading. While most of us are stuck in the daily dirt reporting of the never ending insanity, Sullivan has taken on a new role in the media as a sage-like figure who dips into public ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

I'm fairly exhausted today and won't be doing much writing, but Andrew Sullivan's response to the election of Donald Trump is an absolute must read. It is truly frightening, but a necessary prognosis of the dire situation we now find ourselves in: America has now jumped off a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In a sobering, brutal piece published in New York Magazine today, Andrew Sullivan lays bare the terrifying reality of what a Trump presidency would do to America. Characterizing Trump as a sociopathic, misogynistic and racist bully with "no concept of a non-zero-sum engagement", ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Back for this presidential election only, America's original political blogger Andrew Sullivan and recent Hillary convert had the following to say about his worry that Clinton would fall to Trump at the debate:  What can one say? I was afraid that Trump’s charisma and stage ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

After live blogging the Democratic Convention's second day of events, long time Clinton critic Andrew Sullivan responded to readers who thought his coverage was overly negative with a fairly stunning statement: Some readers think I’ve been too negative, even cynical, tonight. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In between live blogging the Republican National Convention for New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer, Andrew Sullivan posted this sober realization on his Facebook page: Taking a walk this evening, it occurred to me, given the chaotic, careening shitshow we watched last night, ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In a truly extraordinary essay in New York Magazine, grandfather of the blogosphere Andrew Sullivan made his long awaited return to online writing.  Having stopped blogging last year and closing down The Dish due to exhaustion, Sullivan has remained quiet about the 2016 ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The blogosphere was in a state of shock last night as pioneer blogger Andrew Sullivan, almost completely out of the blue declared that he would be retiring from blogging. He wrote on the Dish: I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again. I’m a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

It's getting more than a little deep in here. No one should be surprised that Newt Gingrich called the ouster of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich a product of "new fascism" (same great taste?), joining other right-wing luminaries like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck in Hitlerian ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Feb 17, 2016

Andrew Sullivan on the bizarre political alliances emerging over the NSA leaks scandal: What has emerged in the past few days is a fascinating snapshot of a shifting political landscape. On the one side, we have a libertarian-civil liberties left alliance. On the other, a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The article I wrote on the back and forth between Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan on the definition of 'terrorism' sparked off an interesting debate on the Banter. Here are some of the comments from our readers (my thoughts below each comment): js hooper writes: Greenwald ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The killing of British soldier Drummer Lee Rigby by two proclaimed Muslims has instigated an increasingly nasty intellectual battle over the definition of the word 'Terrorism'. The debate is best encapsulated by  the back and forth between Andrew Sullivan (for calling the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Yesterday morning I was making my usual rounds through the blogs when I habitually clicked over to Andrew Sullivan's site, as I do every day because I dig the insight, variety and brevity of Sullivan's writing even though I don't always agree with him. As I scrolled down ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016

Andrew Sullivan decries Israel's self harming policies that he believes will eventually lead to its demise: Without diplomacy toward a two-state solution, we are looking at a lifetime of constant Israeli warfare against all of its neighbors, deeper isolation in the region (with ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

I'm not sure what was more nerve wracking last night, the debate between Obama and Romney, or Andrew Sullivan's mental state. Having taken the first debate rather badly, Sullivan had been close to the edge, writing off Obama's chance at re-election and readying himself for the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan has this gem from Bill Clinton's debate with George Bush Sr, where the then governor of Arkansas draws a direct contrast between the economic theories of the Republicans and the Democrats. It is painful to watch Bush try to empathize with an audience member's ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

With the polls indicating that the election is becoming increasingly close, it's probably time that everyone re-assesses just how important televised Presidential debates are - at least in this election. Proof? Just look at what happened to Obama's numbers after the first debate ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

This was Andrew Sullivan's reaction to the bad poll numbers that came in yesterday: Sullivan is a self confessed drama queen, but this really is taking it too far. He writes: Look: I'm trying to rally some morale, but I've never seen a candidate this late in the game, so far ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan puts the debate in perspective: Now I've slept on it, that seems to me what happened last night. It was such a mesmerizing sales job and so relentless, checked at no point by Lehrer, and at no point checked by past reality or facts, Obama was left with two ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Here's a round up of how the liberal blogosphere saw the debate last night. Not so good for Obama: Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic: I think that was pretty bad performance by Obama and an excellent one by Romney. This is exactly what Republicans wanted. Not to refer back to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

After a week of Romney trying to undo the damage of the "47%" video, these are the latest numbers on his likeliness to win the election if it were held today (from Nate Silver): What conclusion can we draw? Andrew Sullivan deduces the obvious: We have found that Romney in ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan responds to being labelled a parasite by Mitt Romney: He's describing half the country as parasites, bleeding the productive half dry. Half the country. He includes me, an Obama supporter, who pays three times the tax on my income that Romney does, who immigrated ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Say what you want about the President, the mans temperament is nothing short of astonishing. The current crisis in Libya has again demonstrated the difference between Obama and Romney.  One is a world class leader with a seriously cool head and the other a third rate buffoon ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The new figures from Gallup tracking poll shows Obama's approval ratings jumping back up - a sign that his speech at the convention worked. At least for now: Writes Andrew Sullivan on the bump: .....a real breakthrough - especially sinc Gallup has been leaning a little GOP ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Chief neo-con propagandist Charles Krauthammer has been doing the rounds defending Romney's time at Bain Capital. Here he is lying about Romney's record: Obama starts with the attack on the [Romney] outsourcing. It’s shown to be false. If there was any, it happened after Romney ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan compares cults and religions and finds a lot of common ground - with one major difference: The doctrines of  Mormonism strike me as no more strange than those of most other mainstream religions, but more obviously odd simply because they are so recent. I cannot ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

By Chez Pazienza: A little background on the subject at hand: Back during the 2004 presidential race, at the Democratic National Convention, Anderson Cooper was doing an interview with hip-hop mogul and political dilettante Diddy at a time when I happened to be in the CNN ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 18, 2016

Andrew Sullivan's post about 'How to Survive a Plague', a new film on the gay civil rights movement and AIDS epidemic is an absolute must read. Key quote: If you want to understand the gay civil rights movement in the last twenty years, you need to see this film. None of it ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

By Ben Cohen: The fallout from the bitter recall election in Wisconsin is reverberating around political circles and the media. The Right is claiming victory in an election that they believe should never have happened, and the Left is busy licking its wounds and crying foul ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan responds to a typically intellectually dishonest post by Jonah Goldberg on comparisons between Bush and Obama's spending: The truth is that Bush ramped up spending much more than Obama has - and he did so without presiding over the the worst recession since the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

By Ben Cohen: The Mitt Romney campaign team will attempt to make the economy the key focus of the 2012 election because that is where they believe Obama is weakest. The economy isn't in great shape and the future looks even more uncertain. Romney has a stellar record as a ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan analyzes Mitt Romney's very weird laugh: One gets the sense that Mormons, perhaps because they remain deeply insecure about their religion, make an extra effort to seem utterly great, happy, nice, genial human beings. Hence what's been called "The Mormon Mask." ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

By Ben Cohen: It is easy to be cynical about politics, particularly in the media age where substance counts for little and image is everything. But yesterday, President Obama did something that rose above the usual games and gave hope to millions of people around the world. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

By Ben Cohen: I'd bet a significant amount of my own money that Mitt Romney will not be victorious in the 2012 Presidential election. But with a fragile economy and a breaking middle class, the possibility that Romney could pull an upset is not out of the question. And it is ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

By Bob Cesca: Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Greenwald appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher last Friday and the issue of the president's targeted predator drone killing of Anwar Al-Awlaki came up. Naturally, since it's one of his pet topics, Glenn Greenwald spoke against the ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan on the Catholic Church's ridiculous and morally bankrupt stance on contraception: I find the protectors of child rapists preaching to women about contraception to be a moral obscenity. When all the implicated bishops and the Pope resign, ther replacements ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

After an epic essay outlining how brilliant Obama has been over the past four years, Andrew Sullivan shot down the President's State of the Union address for being 'too liberal': I was hoping for a vision. I was hoping for real, strategic reform. What we got was one big ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In an article on The Daily Beast that is well worth reading, Andrew Sullivan takes apart myths perpertuated by the Right (and Left) about President Obama. Here he is on Obama's fiscal policy: In retrospect, they [the decisions made after the economic crash] were far more ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The major problem with mainstream political commentary in America is that it is basically completely meaningless. There is an entire industry built around the horse race - tracking who is up and who is down, which candidate sounds the most presidential and who has the best ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

If you add up all the things that Ron Paul believes are unconstitutional, there would literally be no reason to have a government at all: Why on earth this man is viewed as being a serious candidate is anyone's guess, but then looking at the rest of the GOP field, it isn't that ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

In a nutshell: I suspect every other Republican would launch a war against Iran. Paul wouldn't. That alone makes a vote for him worthwhile. Sullivan's overall argument is of course, far more nuanced, and it's difficult to disagree with him on many points - particularly the one ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Jonathan Freedland explains how Fox New's quest for ratings is helping unelectable Republicans dominate the primary: Fox, serving up constant outrage and fury, favours bluster over policy coherence. Its ideal contributor is a motormouth not a wonk, someone who makes good TV ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018