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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Views Thursday, June 13, 2019 I Don't Trust This Administration* With a Lemon Zester, Let Alone a War With Iran I am not buying this in the least. I remember the Iraq lies. I know this administration is truthless from top to bottom and all the way out both sides. I don't trust the Saudi government as far as I can throw a bone saw. And this president* feels very much like he's being run to ground at the... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 24, 2019 This Is Pure Authoritarian Audacity Right now, every couple of hours, the United States starts lurching toward some sort of military confrontation with Iran, and then it lurches back. It's what The Guns of August would have read like if it had been written by Tom Robbins. It makes the high diplomacy portrayed in Duck Soup look like... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 16, 2019 I No Longer Believe House Democrats Will Uphold Their Constitutional Duty As John Mitchell, realizing that he was busted, once said to Carl Bernstein: "Good god." From CNBC, via the Washington Post : Nadler, who would preside over impeachment proceedings in the House, also expressed frustration with Attorney General William P. Barr during the interview with CNBC , at one... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 02, 2019 William Barr Is Orchestrating a Slow-Rolling Coup Against the Constitutional Order So, the Attorney General of the United States, having presumably reassembled his gizzard after Senator Kamala Harris took it apart for him on live television , spit in the eye of the constitutional order by refusing to honor a pair of subpoenas from the House Judiciary Committee—one for an... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 18, 2019 William Barr Is a Complete Tool. It's Time for Robert Mueller to Testify The day after five burglars in the employ of a presidential re-election campaign were caught in the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, a former cop named Tony Ulascewicz was called to a meeting on a park bench not far from the White House. Waiting for him were White House counsel... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 27, 2018 The Republican Party as Presently Constituted Must Be Torn Down to Its Foundations. The Planet Depends on It. So, over the weekend, another child died in the custody of the United States because of the president*'s brainless immigration policy. The president* flew halfway around the world for a 30-minute photo-op with some soldiers because he was shamed into doing so, and this was shortly after he was... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Thomas Farr Is a Hack Too Far Comes now another test for Ben Sasse, and Susan Collins, and all the other Republicans who are terribly dismayed over the vandal in the White House, and what he is doing to our precious national dialogue and to our democratic institutions. How's about you all get together and fight like hell to... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 14, 2018 There's a Lot of Talk About 'Mobs' These Days. Let Me Refer You to the Constitutional Convention I've been thinking a lot about mobs recently. The word's been getting tossed around a lot these days, mostly by Republicans, who were inconvenienced over one weekend in their attempt to put a credible accused sex offender, and the Edward Scissorhands of the topiary of the truth, on the Supreme... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 05, 2018 Ben Sasse Is Sad. Ben Sasse Is a Hypocrite. As an ambitious young senator with plans for the future, Young Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, has a brand to protect. In brief, Young Ben Sasse's brand is that we all should love each other more, send our kids to dairy-farm boot camp, and, by all means, don't take the politics that are... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 05, 2018 Brett Kavanaugh Is a Lifelong Republican Operative and Will Rule Like One So, at the end of a long and noisy and farcical day, Judge Brett Kavanaugh finally got to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee what a great guy he is. It was not impressive. Throughout my life, I have tried to serve the common good, in keeping with my Jesuit high school's motto, "men for others." I... Read more |