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David Faris

Chicago

Writer at Newsweek

Writer at Slate

Writer @Newsweek, @Slate, @TheWeek. Prof. of Politics @RooseveltU. Author, IT'S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY. Regular guest @bennyjshow. Views are mine.

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  • 1 week ago | newsweek.com | David Faris

    In the summer of 2003, a relatively unknown Democratic governor from Vermont named Howard Dean electrified rally goers around the country with a simple message: The George W. Bush administration should be resisted rather than accommodated.

  • 2 weeks ago | slate.com | David Faris

    Politics Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Come back with me, if you will, to one of the many Trump dramas that has dominated the past couple of weeks—whether or not the president would fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

  • 3 weeks ago | theweek.com | David Faris

    In March 2025, the Trump administration announced that it had deported hundreds of men, which it falsely claimed were all members of a gang called Tren de Aragua, to El Salvador. In order to accomplish this, President Trump relied on El Salvador's hip young president, Nayib Bukele, to house the prisoners in the country's immense Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).

  • 3 weeks ago | theweek.com | David Faris

    Divorce isn't how anyone imagines their marriage journey will end. Nevertheless, it is the outcome for more than 600,000 American couples per year. As anyone who has been through the painful process can attest, it is much more complicated than packing your bags and leaving, often requiring courts, lawyers, mediators and staggering amounts of cash. How long has the institution of divorce been around? Divorce, like , has been part of human society since antiquity.

  • 1 month ago | newsweek.com | David Faris

    As the second Trump administration lurches from one self-inflicted crisis to another in a seemingly relentless quest to destroy both the material and moral foundations of American power, Americans will need to get comfortable with their new status as denizens of a global pariah state. Gone is the hope that Donald Trump and his MAGA movement were some kind of aberration.

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David Faris
David Faris @davidmfaris
6 Jan 25

RT @sethmaxon: Read @davidmfaris on the success of January 6th: “Virtually every person tasked with bringing Trump and his allies to justic…

David Faris
David Faris @davidmfaris
1 Jan 25

Oh c’mon. The story is not about rural food deserts. It explicitly talks about people driving hours to save absurdly small amounts of money on bread as part of an inflation narrative. If they were driving two hours for -all of their groceries- then why didn’t they say that?

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David Faris
David Faris @davidmfaris
25 Nov 24

Now might be a good time to re-evaluate which political party you support, unless you think mass deportations > saving children’s lives with vaccines.

Seth Mandel
Seth Mandel @SethAMandel

Earlier in my career I did some research work for health experts and a lot of it had to do with vaccines. A key thing to me was that they had changed the value of the life of a child. We stopped just expecting a certain number of children to die from seasonal maladies. Miracle.