Views + Opinions
Orlando Weekly Views + Opinions features commentary, analysis, and columns on politics, culture, and community issues in Central Florida.
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Nancy Pelosi’s husband is expected to recover. American democracy may not
Although members of both parties attempt political violence, only one party openly and unrepentantly celebrates political violence.
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Swing voters can’t seem to connect present events to the instigating events that happened months ago
If the economy is struggling, if gas prices are up, the party in power is punished.
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In the race for Florida governor, it’s either Crist or the large red-faced toddler currently in charge
There’s no such thing as a “perfect candidate.”
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Herschel Walker wasn’t Senate material even before his latest scandal
Informed Dissent
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Evangelical Christianity is no longer a theology — it’s a cultural identity in service to the party of Trump
Selling their souls
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Leave it to Florida’s Ron DeSantis to utilize overt racism and abject dehumanization as a national political strategy
The 2024 Republican presidential primary is shaping up to be a battle royale of bullying.
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Biden’s speech ripping MAGA nation shows he finally accepts that the Republican Party he knew is a distant memory
The prez seems to have hurt the feelings of the ‘f*ck your feelings’ crowd.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Florida is at the vanguard of states giving teachers the finger
Short-term populism has long-term consequences.
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It looks like Chuck Schumer learned how to do politics like a Republican
A secret deal with Joe Manchin, passage of the semiconductor bill *and* the reconciliation bill, and a forced self-own for the GOP … not bad.
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Letters to the editor: Thanks a lot, Grandpa
‘Not only is Grandpa feeling free-er by having his freedom taken away, he is voting in grifters who will take his money.’
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Op-ed: An opinion of the housing crisis in Florida from a drowning tenant
‘I need a life raft!’
