This Is All John Roberts’ Fault by Pema Levy and Ari Berman

The past ten months has been an extended experiment meant to determine how many laws the executive branch can break without facing repercussions. The criminals actions are coming from the White House, but the other two branches of government are doing arguably greater damage by abdicating their respective responsibilities to stand fast against such abuse. Writing for Mother Jones, Pema Levy and Ari Berman bring special, deserved ire to John Roberts’ place in all this. The Chief Justice who’s regularly portrayed himself as nobly above the political has in fact been a eager water carrier for the Republican Party from the jump. His anti-judicial efforts have only accelerated since the Queens-born conman has ascended to mind-boggling levels of power.

Epstein and His Fancy Friends Are Not the Point of the Story by Jennifer Weiner

Writing for The New York Times, Jennifer Weiner does her part to redirect attention around the most sensational news story of the moment from salacious speculation about wealthy abusers to considerations of all the young lives irreparably damaged by grotesque men. This isn’t going to stop the rest of the press from spending the next few weeks combing through emails and documents in a cynical hunt for famous names, but every corrective action helps.

GOP candidate admits he was wrong about Muslims and ‘Sharia law’ in Dearborn by Steve Neavling

On the surface of it, this news story is the latest example of an individual whose brain has been poisoned by right-wing propaganda reconsidering after being exposed to reality. I suspect that, like some of the recent equivocations by the undistinguished federal representative from Georgia’s 14th district, this Michigan politician’s sharp rejection of his own bigotry is a weather vane that indicates hopeful changes in the prevailing attitude of the electorate. Further evidence of this theory comes with the kicker of the story exposing that his views are actually as putrid as ever. Steve Neavling wrote this piece for Metro Times.