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Trump's war on American war fighters is a clear threat to national security
Efforts to transform the military into a MAGA army aren't just bigoted and immoral — they are also an attack on the country's ability to defend itself
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Jim Carroll
Hazel Grace on reinventing the American Dream
The adult performer and entrepreneur talks faith deconstruction, racism in porn, and why she’s still a Republican fighting Trumpism
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Matthew Sheffield
1:02:30
Can Democrats manufacture coolness?
Republicans invested big in culture commentators and it paid off, will Democrats follow suit?
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The Grok 'White Genocide' Incident Shows How AI Can Become a Propaganda Machine
When Musk's chatbot started injecting "white genocide" conspiracy theories into unrelated conversations, it revealed the dangerous power of AI to…
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The right-wing wars on science and sex are linked
New Moon Network founder Savannah Sly on the radical right’s attack on self-knowledge and autonomy
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Matthew Sheffield
1:02:34
MAGA just can't quit embracing Germany's neo-Nazi party
Democrats need to attack an unholy transatlantic alliance that highlights the GOP's shift to the extreme far right
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Jim Carroll
Creationism, AI, and techno-oligarchy: Understanding the new age of pseudoscience
Physicist and author Adam Becker on what reactionary billionaires want and where they got their extreme ideas
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Matthew Sheffield
1:12:48
Chronicle of a dictatorship foretold
Part of the unreality of the lawless first 100 days of Trump II is how unsurprising it has all been, given that his first term ended with an actual…
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Jim Carroll

April 2025

Trump begins to reap a backlash of his own making
Betting his presidency on assertions of unbridled power on the international and national stages, Donald Trump is starting to learn that most people…
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Jim Carroll
As Hegseth flails, Democrats need to pin responsibility on the president who picked him
Pete Hegseth's reign of error at the Pentagon is a direct consequence of Trump choosing an incompetent defense secretary
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Jim Carroll
Trump's economic war on the world is based on a new Big Lie
Unable to confront the economic challenges his own party has helped create, the president proposes nonsense solutions to punish MAGA's enemies
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Jim Carroll
MAGA's Wounded Masculinity
The Cult of Trump is rooted in fascism's gender anxieties
Published on Small Precautions • 
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