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 Sunday, April 15, 2018 I'd Like to Offer This Sanity Quiz to All #NeverTrump Conservatives I am told regularly by people I admire and respect to hold my cynical tongue about all the career conservatives and television flotsam from the late and unlamented Avignon Presidency who now are all over the airwaves deploring the terrible things being done to the Republic by the president* and his... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 11, 2018 Republicans Must Be Thinking About a President Mike Pence Right Now Vice President* Mike Pence is stopping by the Commonwealth (God save it!) on Tuesday night to raise money for the Trump re-election effort and the Republican National Committee. (Some crumbs may accrue to the Massachusetts Republican Party, probably to keep the lights on, and to keep the local... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 30, 2018 How Much Taxpayer Money Has Scott Walker Wasted Fighting Courts That Told Him to Do His Job? Because we are on our way to San Antone— mandatory nod to Bob Wills —we are making only two stops on our tour this week, but both of them are cherce. We begin in Wisconsin, where the desperate attempts of Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage that particular... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 21, 2018 Nothing to See Here, Just Freedom Speaking of things blowing up in Texas—the home of the unregulated fertilizer plant and other such sophisticated pre-explosive devices made possible by a business-friendly economic climate—over the weekend, a chemical plant outside of Fort Wor th went up. From The Fort Worth Star-Telegram :... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 14, 2018 Conor Lamb's Victory Matters, and Paul Ryan Should Be Scared The fundamentally absurd subtext to Tuesday night’s extended exercises in the 18th Congressional District of Pennsylvania was that, by the time of the midterm elections this November, the district will not even exist in its present form. So, for a couple of months, Conor Lamb and Rick Saccone had... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 28, 2018 How Do You Deal with This Much Nonsense? This simply can’t go on. I say this to myself every day when I first open the doors to the shebeen and take stock of what’s going on down at Camp Runamuck on Pennsylvania Avenue. The Republic was built to withstand a lot of things, but it was not designed to be run by the likes of President* Trump... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 10, 2018 The GOP Monster Is Out of the Lab Folks haven’t been hipped to this yet, but the Texas Republican party is completely outside of its mind at the moment. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is refusing to let Sandra Bullock film her Wendy Davis biopic in the actual chamber where Davis held the floor for 13 hours in 2013 to delay passage... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 08, 2018 Republican Ruthlessness and Democratic Ineptitude Got Us Here On Wednesday, Salon published a remarkable piece based on documents it sprung from various places, including the inner sanctums of Republican organizations, that paints almost a complete picture of how that party got itself ahead in the long game of redistricting our politics to its complete... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 07, 2018 Where Do Republicans Go From Here? “A shepherd must isolate such an animal (with scrapie) from healthy stock immediately because it is infectious and can cause serious harm to the flock.” — German agricultural publication, 1759. Scrapie is a prion disease, similar in its effect to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease)... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 27, 2018 The Un-American ICE When the damage done by this administration* is toted up, assuming there will be somebody left to count the cost, the unleashing of Border Patrol and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division, and the subsequent depredations thereof, are going to rank right at the top of the list. If you... Read more |