Adam Serwer
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Why Did Fox News Lie to Its Viewers?
The network’s hosts and leaders knew that Trump had lost the election, but feared the consequences of telling their audience the truth. → Read More
Why Conservatives Invented a ‘Right to Post’
You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say. → Read More
World Cup 2022: The Cursed Goal
Belgium’s elimination from the World Cup showed that sometimes, for no apparent reason, the ball just won’t go in. → Read More
The Sport of Short Kings
Soccer is where mini monarchs reign supreme. → Read More
The Martyrdom of Alex Jones
Right-wing anger over a defamation judgment reflects disgust at seeing the rules applied to them. → Read More
Arizona Deletes the Right to Record the Police
An Arizona law seeks to solve the problem of police misconduct by preventing anyone from documenting it. → Read More
Fear of a Black Hobbit
The demand to keep politics out of art is too often a demand for art to conform to conservative politics. → Read More
The Right to Free Speech Is Not the Right to Monologue
The attack on Salman Rushdie was not a product of modern social-justice discourse. → Read More
The Right-Wing War on Free Speech Could Backfire
Progressives aren’t the only ones who need free-speech protections. → Read More
What the Mar-a-Lago Photo Reveals About Trump
A revealing photo removed any remaining ambiguity. → Read More
The Mar-a-Lago Raid Shows That Conservatives Believe Trump Is Above the Law
Republicans’ reflexive insistence that the Mar-a-Lago raid is politically motivated is unmoored from the available evidence. → Read More
The Supreme Court That Transforms Right-Wing Grievances Into Law
The Supreme Court majority’s undead constitutionalism is transforming right-wing media tropes into law. → Read More
The One Group That Could Make a Difference on Gun Control
The polarization of policing has made it politically difficult for firearm restrictions to pass. → Read More
Alito’s Plan to Repeal Roe—and Other 20th Century Civil Rights
If the conservative justice’s draft opinion is adopted by the Court, key advances of the past hundred years could be rolled back. → Read More
Elon Musk Isn't Buying Twitter to Defend Free Speech
Business moguls tend to be big on protecting speech, right until it hurts their bottom line. → Read More
Whoopi Goldberg’s American Idea of Race
The “racial” distinctions between master and slave may be more familiar to Americans, but they were and are no more real than those between Gentile and Jew. → Read More
Republicans Seem to Think Putting a Black Woman on the Supreme Court Is the Real Racism
Biden hasn’t even named his nominee yet, and already conservatives are saying she’s undeserving. → Read More
The Conservative Justices Have Drunk the Anti-vax Kool-Aid
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision hinges on a new and alarming embrace of the right-wing culture war against vaccination. → Read More
The Trial of Ahmaud Arbery's Killers Almost Did Not Happen
The most surprising aspect of the trial was not the verdict, but the fact that it happened at all. → Read More
The Authoritarian Instincts of Police Unions
They condition their members to see themselves as soldiers at war with the public they are meant to serve, and above the laws they are meant to enforce. → Read More