Politics

What Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny Are Telling Us About America

What Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny Are Telling Us About America

Society / December 13, 2024 When social structures corrode, as they are doing now, they trigger desperate deeds like Mangione’s, and rightist vigilantes like Penny. Edit Ad Policy (Jeff Swensen / Getty Images; MEGA / GC Images) Brandishing a juvenile, chicken-scratch graph, right-wing pundit and neoconservative toady Scott Jennings offered …

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Donald Trump Is the Authentic American Berserk

Donald Trump Is the Authentic American Berserk

December 13, 2024 Far from being an alien interloper, the incoming president draws from homegrown authoritarianism. Ad Policy The pure products of America: Roy Cohn and Donald Trump at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC, on March 20, 1983.(Guy DeLort / Penske Media via Getty Images) In March 2019, Joe …

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Banning Trans Health Care Puts Young People at Risk of Harm

Banning Trans Health Care Puts Young People at Risk of Harm

Society / December 13, 2024 The Supreme Court will increase risks by upholding state bans on gender-affirming care, contrary to what conservative lawmakers argue. Ad Policy People hold signs outside the US Supreme Court on December 4, 2024 in Washington, D.C., during oral arguments on whether states can ban certain …

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What Was the Biggest Factor in Kamala Harris’s Defeat?

What Was the Biggest Factor in Kamala Harris’s Defeat?

The Debate / December 13, 2024 As progressives continue to debate the reasons for Harris’s loss—it was the economy! it was the bigotry!—Isabella Weber and Elie Mystal duke out their opposing positions. Ad Policy Democratic presidential nominee, and Vice President Kamala Harris concedes the election at Howard University on November …

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