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Review of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right by Laura K. Field (Princeton University Press, 2025) At a Beyoncé concert last summer, I found myself thinking about the right-wing philosopher Harry V....

Review of As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Public Schools by David I. Backer (The New Press, 2025) As the carnage wreaked by the Trump administration on the federal government continues apace, the...

It is by now clear that European leaders prefer the war in Ukraine to continue, that they fear peace (a “quick” one anyway), that many believe Europe is already at war and seem “gung ho”...

“The Republican Party . . . they’re atheists, gay, feminists. We need to rally the base against the establishment,” said white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes in an October 27 YouTube video that now holds over...

In early 2020, all roads in American politics led to Medicare for All. The policy demand, shorthand for a universal, tax-funded, single-payer health insurance plan, began its ascent four years prior when it was elevated...

Doing his best George W. Bush “Mission Accomplished” impression, President Donald Trump recently declared that he’s “already solved inflation” and “costs are down.” As proof, Trump touted Walmart’s holiday promotional meal basket. One company running...

Copenhagen saw a historic shift last Tuesday night, following the elections held in the Danish capital and across Denmark. After more than a century of holding power in Copenhagen, the Social Democrats finally lost the...

The year is 2019. Tens of millions across the globe pour into the streets, demanding governments halt new fossil fuel infrastructure and pass policy that puts humanity on a path toward a relatively climate-safe world...

OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will soon allow erotic and sexually explicit interactions for adult users. As millions already use AI to simulate friendship and even romance, this move will likely increase the number of people in personal,...

“We agree on a lot more than I would have thought,” Donald Trump recently said after meeting with New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Most commentators treated this as one more odd flourish in Trump’s never-ending...

A youth march with the notable absence of youth. A march against violence that ended with deliberately provoked violence. A nonpartisan march with one of its key proponents in the pay of the nation’s conservative...

Explanations for the United States’ bloody-minded support of Israel’s wars in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran tend to fall into three categories. There are geopolitical explanations: Israel is a bulwark against America’s foes;...