Republicans are ready to impeach at the drop of a hat, and are already thinking about how to impeach Biden for alleged shortcomings in the past.

The impeachment standard they propose does have one benefit: it would permit impeaching Kavanaugh for attempted rape in the past. But I think that this would not outweigh the permanent damage caused by debasing impeachment as Republicans generally debase things.

Meanwhile, Biden still claims he can "work with Republicans" in the Senate.

One woman yearns to have a president who resembles her … and has concluded that resemblance in values is more important than resemblance in gender.

Unscrupulous right-wing extremists circulated false information about the Iowa caucuses to try to discourage participation.

The US system of primary elections is badly flawed as a way of representing the voter's preferences. This article proposes improvements.

*America, founded on the evils of slavery, genocide and the violent exploitation of the working class, is a country defined by historical amnesia.*

(The history of the US includes all three, but not all at the same time. Violent exploitation of the working class wasn't a very big factor until after the Civil War. Before then, most Americans lived on farms.)

The most interesting part of article is the part about Joseph Roth and what to do after vicious inhumanity has taken over your country and civilization has been defeated.