Meredith Rutland Bauer
Meredith is a San Francisco Bay Area freelance reporter. She is a Florida native and a graduate of the University of Florida, and her work has appeared in Vice, Quartz, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. See her work at meredithrutlandbauer.com and follow her on Twitter @merebauer.
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Ultimate rightwing transgression: the mockery of politics as a preposterous joke
The Big Lie is "yoked to an older deception, without which it could not survive: the idea that American politics is a joke," attackable without consequences.
Tax the rich? We did that once
A little history might just inspire us to try that taxing again.
Does Elon Musk have a right to destroy Twitter?
Do we really think that the super-wealthy should be allowed to control so much wealth and wield so much influence?
Right-wing SCOTUS majority signals support for anti-LGBTQ+ reactionaries
"It does not bode well for the future of civil rights law that Gorsuch believes a state imposes 'reeducation training' on employers when it reminds them how to comply with nondiscrimination rules," said one court observer.
Puerto Rican cities sue fossil fuel companies in major class-action, climate fraud case
Municipalities aim to hold industry liable for damages from catastrophic 2017 hurricanes.