Misogyny Makes You Stupid by Brooke Binkowski

This fierce, scrappy essay goes straight at the ludicrously misogynistic worldview that dominates on the right side of the political spectrum. It’s loathsome enough on its own that Republican candidates and superfans so casually and joyfully spew hate against roughly half the population. Brooke Binkowski persuasively argues that there’s a general erosion of intelligence caused by the zealots’ need to override the cognitive dissonance they experience when it becomes abundantly clear that women aren’t naturally inferior. If they have to reject that obvious truth, then all reality checks seem faulty, and they remain stuck in their flat, faulty nightmare-world. This piece was published by Wonkette.

What Worries Me Most About Election Night by Rachel Maddow

With a thoroughness and wry wonderment that will be familiar to anyone who’s had the Rachel Maddow Experience on television or in print, the myriad of ways that a certain former President’s misguided disciples have worked aggressively to game the electoral system in the years since the norm of a respectful, peaceful transfer of power was trampled upon. I still can’t quite believe that the nation’s well-established systems won’t hold in the face of these obviously bad-faith machinations, but it’s certainly likely to be a messy November, December, and January if the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency is defeated on Election Day. This article is published by The New York Times.