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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 …
Read More »Opinion | Democrats’ fundraising tactics aren’t just annoying. They’re backfiring.
We’ve all been there. You open your inbox to find it overflowing with political fundraising emails — bizarre subject lines, dire warnings and urgent pleas for your money. Then your phone dings. It’s another fundraising text. In 2024 alone, my inbox was bombarded with over 3,200 emails from Democratic campaigns, …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Amazon joins Meta in donating $1 million to Trump inauguration
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Senate Republicans acknowledge pressure campaign over Cabinet picks 08:43 Now Playing Amazon joins Meta in donating $1 million to Trump inauguration 06:40 UP NEXT RFK’s Jr.’s lawyer has asked the FDA to revoke polio vaccine …
Read More »American Carnage?
Peter Kuper Trump promises a Project 2025 future. The post American Carnage? appeared first on The Nation. Source link
Read More »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 …
Read More »If Democrats Want to Reconnect With the Working Class, They Need to Start Listening to Unions
Democratic Party leaders acknowledge that they are struggling to figure out how to regain the trust, and the votes, of working-class Americans. After the setbacks the party experienced in 2024 — beginning with the loss of the presidency, but certainly not ending there — the candidates who form a growing …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Dem claims Trump wielding nuclear strike authority ‘should terrify you’ — then people point out the obvious
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., claimed that people should be terrified that President-elect Donald Trump will possess the power to initiate a nuclear attack. In a post on X, Markey noted, “Come January, Donald Trump will have the sole authority to launch a nuclear strike. This should terrify you. That’s why …
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