Matt Purple

A response to that New York Times essay defending divorce as empowerment

Shame on Congress and Joe Biden for their gigantic spending packages

From 1970s gas lines to the 1918 pandemic, where will the President take us next?

Democrats prepare to ‘tax the rich’ by whacking cigarettes, but their moralizing is selective

Have enough cleft-toed demisexual non-binary POCs been contestants on Jeopardy!?

Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is wrong and authoritarian, but let’s keep some perspective here

Contra Lindsey Graham, let’s spend this somber anniversary living without fear

The dystopian novel doesn’t say what many on the left think it does

He’s sticking to the mission, even as he throws out his back on every banana peel from here to Jalalabad 

If the Europeans want to check our power — rather than just complain about it — they need to show that they can

I had been receiving Trump’s fundraising emails for years and certainly the language had always been insistent. But this was a new level of aggression

A certain post-apocalyptic milieu prevails throughout the nation’s capital

You gotta fight for your HIPAA right to party…

The Most Powerful Men on Earth Emeritus have been quarreling out loud over whether they could have decapitated the US government

The late defense secretary is a scapegoat for the Establishment

Biden’s views on guns can seem…schizophrenic

‘Rush Limbaugh on decaf’ doesn’t seem right for this political moment