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, 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 |
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Views Wednesday, August 22, 2018 I Lived Through Watergate. I Lived Through the Saturday Night Massacre. There Never Was Anything Like This Nobody can deny that this already is the single most awesome infrastructure week ever. For a long moment on Tuesday afternoon, the Deputy Finance Director of the Republican National Committee, and the president*'s longtime fixer, was copping a plea; the president*'s former campaign manager was... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 20, 2018 Trump's Deregulation Frenzy Isn't Trumpism, It's Republicanism In keeping with our theme of Monday morning, we note that, on Tuesday, the administration* plans to implement more of its Child Asthma and Planetary Extinction Program Plan by rolling back a whole host of clean-air regulations. The point man on this is a cat named William Wehrum, who has been... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 10, 2018 Climate Change Destroys the Lives of the Poorest Human Beings First We begin our tour in West Virginia, where the state supreme court apparently became so swampy that it has made the state legislature there want to holler, throw up both its hands, as Marvin Gaye once counseled—and in the loudest possible way, too. The legislature is moving toward impeaching the lot... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 06, 2018 This Was as Grave an Attack on Our Democracy as the Russian Meddling Matt Dunlap is the Secretary of State in Maine, which means he is a Democratic official working in the same state government as the country's worst governor, human bowling-jacket Paul LePage. He also was chosen to be one of four Democratic politicians on the president*'s blessedly forgotten... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Anything Can Happen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Victory Shows Stunning Energy of the Democrats' Progressive Arm There’s a lot to be said about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s earthquake of an upset in the Democratic primary to represent the 14th Congressional District of New York. The 28-year-old Democratic Socialist ended the career of Joe Crowley, a 14-year incumbent who was even-money to be the Speaker of a... Read more |