It’s becoming the lowest of pejoratives. For the Left, if you compare the way conservative politicians are treated to progressive ones, you’re rationalizing. You’re making excuses. If you use your ...

In neglecting the standards of rational argumentation, whataboutism lazily degrades and relativizes our politics. It is a sort of giving up on discourse. Jesus of Nazareth, the great first-century ...

Before we can adequately respond to the frontal assault Donald Trump has launched on our way of life, we need to grapple with whataboutism. It is destroying our capacity to make rational judgments.

Whataboutism got a lot of attention during the past few elections. It’s the tendency for someone to deflect the question about one thing with a counter about something else. Ask a politician about a ...

Bulwark Policy Editor Mona Charen says Americans do more damage than they know when they dismiss gross corruption as “everybody does it” —because everybody doesn’t. “It’s perfectly clear why Trump and ...

Sarah Spain has spent her career pointing out various examples of injustices, racism, and sexism in the world of sports, but her coverage of Deshaun Watson has illustrated another point entirely: the ...

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Mona Charen is policy editor of The Bulwark and host of the "Beg to Differ" podcast. Her new book, "Hard Right: The GOP's Drift Toward Extremism," is available now. Before we can adequately respond to ...

MILWAUKEE — Let’s stipulate — anyone who claims to know where the presidential race is heading is merely guessing. The whiplash the American electorate has experienced in this campaign is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vice President JD Vance sits in the Oval Office on October 9, during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Finnish ...

Hunter Biden is constantly being discussed in conservative circles. Whether it be allegations of corruption, stories of far-from-mysterious cocaine in the White House, or children no one wants to ...

Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Let’s look back at the week in Opinion. After a week in which hundreds of civilian Israelis were massacred for the crime of existing ...