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Charles P. Pierce

Charles P. Pierce

Charles P. Pierce is a writer-at-large for Esquire and his work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the LA Times Magazine, the Nation, the Atlantic, Sports Illustrated and The Chicago Tribune, among others.

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This is your democracy, America. (Photo: SAUL LOEB/Getty Images)

The Pennsylvania Debacle Is Proof Trumpism Is Entwined With Republicanism All the Way Down

Nothing is over, to paraphrase Senator John Blutarsky, until they say it is. Which often is never.

Charles P. Pierce ·

Whitehouse came prepared. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sheldon Whitehouse Made the Case That Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination Is a Bag Job

It was planned and executed by a vast and single-minded network of which no parallel exists on the other side.

Charles P. Pierce ·

"Frankly, I don’t know what it's going to take," writes Pierce, "to get an anesthetized citizenry off its ass and realize what a threat the country is facing in having a criminal idiot as a chief executive." (Photo: Ted Eytan/flickr/cc)

Why Aren't the American People Marching in the Streets Over McConnell Cover-Up in the Senate

The American public has now proved that it will tolerate just about anything except sign-stealing in baseball and a bad decision on The Bachelor.

Charles P. Pierce ·

Somebody who’s still in the race should say it as bravely as Julian Castro did. (Photo: Chip SomodevillaGetty Images)

Julian Castro's Story Should Cause the Democratic Party to Reflect on How It Chooses Candidates

In general, it should make the country melancholy about how we do politics in the age of big money.

Charles P. Pierce ·

This letter has nothing to do with the law. (Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKIGetty Images)

The White House Stonewall Letter Is a MAGA Rally Draped in a Toga

Gaze in awe at The Constitution According to Camp Runamuck.

Charles P. Pierce ·

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., joined by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Schiff Makes Clear All Trump Efforts to Obstruct House Inquiry Will Be Added to Articles of Impeachment

Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff just provided a preemptive autopsy of Trump's presidency.

Charles P. Pierce ·

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Attorney General William Barr in the Oval Office. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/White House)

Trump's Ukraine Call 'Not-a-Transcript' Proves This Is 'Stupid Watergate'

The Trumpists release a non-transcript that is nonetheless incriminating—for the president, for his attorney general, and for Rudy Giuliani.

Charles P. Pierce ·

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