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Mass denaturalization could be used to move the country toward the MAGA movement’s larger goal of a white Christian nationalist United States.
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Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s assaults on free speech.
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The former president’s stubbornness and narcissism led to disastrous Trump victory.
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December 1, 2010: The (Not So) Secret (Anymore) US War in Pakistan The (Not So) Secret (Anymore) US War in Pakistan
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As an undergrad, I mocked the radical leftist turned reactionary. But with his cruel, vindictive politics taking over the government, he had the last laugh.

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Investigating the alleged contaminated water crisis at the Northwest Detention Center.

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Conservatives don’t just want white dominance. They want to be able to abuse Black people in the worst ways possible—and get rewarded for it.
Books & the Arts

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In their new albums, the musicians look backward as much as forward.

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Her fiction are studies of fragmentation and ambivalence.

Is Criticism Really in Crisis? Is Criticism Really in Crisis?
Andrea Long Chu and the politics of critical life.
World

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In Gaza, the boundary marking past and present has become indistinct. Nineteen forty-eight is not over—it is unfolding again, and in more violent and destructive ways.

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The government’s genocidal fervor is ripping through the carefully constructed layers of self-delusion that power this country.

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All signs point to the newly elected pontiff’s continuing in much the same vein as his predecessor, but with a more moderate approach.
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