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Dave Denison

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Dave Denison is a senior editor of The Baffler. He has written and edited for The Texas Observer, CommonWealth magazine, and The American Prospect. A selected archive of his writing is warehoused at www.davedenison.net. A transplanted Midwesterner, he lives near Boston and claims to be an amateur carpenter, an aspiring mason, and an above-average bowler.

You can find Dave on Twitter @DaveADenison.

The Abominations of Congress

More than twenty years ago Charles Lewis noted in The Buying of the Congress that for most Americans the national legislature is “a distant abomination.” You can put the emphasis on “distant”—fewer than half the citizenry can name their representative and even fewer ...

Presidential Confusion

January 26, 2018
Imagine being a presidential scholar in this moment when the highest office in the land has been captured by a barely literate showman.

Republican Apostate

October 24, 2017
Q&A with Bruce Bartlett author of "The Truth Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Separating Facts From Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks."

Over Our Heads

August 3, 2017
I was wandering in a smoldering landscape, knowing that nothing could be done. The decisions had been made.