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July 5, 2024

 

Vaccine Shortages. Viral Outbreaks. Widespread Illness. More Death.

This could be America’s future if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues his rampage against public health—and it may arrive much sooner than you think.

By Melody Schreiber

 

Is This How ICE Barbie Got Her $50,000 Rolex?

Maybe it’s not so mysterious after all: A blockbuster new report reveals that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem secretly took $80,000 in dark-money political donations for herself.

By Timothy Noah

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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Heterodox Critiques of SCOTUS’s Right Wing

The newest justice has emerged as the court’s left-wing iconoclast, unafraid to break unwritten rules in challenging her conservative colleagues’ ideological project.

By Matt Ford

 

The Left-Wing Policy That AI Evangelists Suddenly Love

Alas, they love it for all the wrong reasons.

By Monica Potts

 
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How Slow Motion Became Cinema’s Dominant Special Effect

The turbulent late ’60s saw the technique’s popularity explode—and it’s been helping moviemakers (and literary artists) engage with the unsettling tempos of modern life ever since.

By Scott W. Stern

 

The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp

The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.

By Melissa Gira Grant

 

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Why America Got a Warfare State, Not a Welfare State

How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it

By Samuel Moyn

 

How the Billionaires Took Over

Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over five decades that made a Trump presidency possible—and maybe inevitable. Here’s how we let it happen.

By Timothy Noah

 

The Rich Should Be Paying More—and Yes, That Means Me

The last 50 years have been a sickening catastrophe for the working class and have created another class of people who really do think they’re better than everyone else. There is an obvious cure for their unearned sense of entitlement.

By Abigail Disney

 

The Obscene Wealth Issue

To count to one million without stopping takes 11 days. To count to one billion takes nearly 32 years. To count Elon Musk’s fortune would take more than 13,000 years. Who needs that much money?

By Michael Tomasky

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