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The Great Replacement Theory Is Just Republican Orthodoxy Now

One of the most horrific things about the lengthy, vile manifesto posted online by the gunman who murdered 10 people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New

6 min read 2022-05-17 17:00:00

Barring a significant upset, John Fetterman will become the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat on Tuesday. The hulking

6 min read 2022-05-17 17:00:00

As it wrestles with one of its most turbulent terms in decades, the Supreme Court on Monday did something all too familiar: It struck down part of a

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Look: I know the score. I’ve been in this hot-take game long enough to identify with the relentless quest to snatch up a zeitgeisty news peg in

6 min read 2022-05-16 17:00:00

In March 2016, when asked for the specifics of his proposal to outlaw abortion, at an MSNBC town hall, then-candidate Donald Trump dodged: “This

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If you lived in Washington D.C. during the Trump years and felt any attachment to the place, you may have experienced, as I did, a double-take every

4 min read 2022-05-16 17:00:00

Would this Buffalo shooting have happened if Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson didn’t exist? Maybe. But the gunman, Payton Gendron, is still alive

3 min read 2022-05-14 17:00:00

Last week, President Joe Biden met with several labor organizers, some fresh from offering testimony on Capitol Hill, in the Oval Office. The confab,

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Speaking at the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers on Monday, AAP president and CEO Maria Pallante addressed what may be the

4 min read 2022-05-13 17:00:00

Hope is important, now more than ever. I don’t suggest that we can or should be blindly optimistic. Far from it. Our very democracy and our ability

5 min read 2022-05-13 17:00:00

John Eastman is often scorned as a villain of the 2020 election, and for good reason. He played an instrumental role in developing the legal theories

5 min read 2022-05-13 17:00:00

Politics today is organized around not affinities but aversions. That’s why President Joe Biden, in the run-up to the midterm elections, is

4 min read 2022-05-12 17:00:00

If there’s one term that sums up Republican policy thinking over the past year or so, it’s one-upmanship. At both the state and federal level,

4 min read 2022-05-12 17:00:00

As Russia continues to flail in Ukraine, a cast of familiar figures are attempting to suddenly rebrand themselves as alleged pro-Western forces on

4 min read 2022-05-12 17:00:00

With the Supreme Court apparently set to overturn Roe v. Wade in the next several weeks, the right to an abortion will almost certainly be the