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February 12, 2024

The State Department Is Still Pale, Male, and Yale

Despite promises to make America’s diplomatic corps more diverse under Secretary of State Antony Blinken, little progress has been made.

By Jonathan Guyer

Take a Cue From Texas: Socialize Energy

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says the state should step in if the private sector fails to build natural gas facilities. How about renewables instead?

By Kate Aronoff

The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco

A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.

By Gil Duran

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Elon Musk’s Unhinged Pro-MAGA Tweets Expose Tech Oligarchy’s Dark Side

A new class of tech barons hopes to create a flourishing information space for "red-pilled" far-right ideologies, and the billionaire Musk is their model leader.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

MAGA Warms to a Murderous Chilean Dictator

Augusto Pinochet’s perceived enemies were drugged, hooded, and tossed into the sea by helicopter. Some of Trump’s fans—including a GOP congressman—find that worthy of praise, or at least humor.

By Patrick Iber

Media Meltdown Over Biden Report Fuels New "But Her Emails" Nightmare

There are many ways the press could have played the Hur report in its news analyses. The path it chose suggests we’re stuck in 2016 again.

By Greg Sargent

Dumb and Dumber: Mike Johnson Is Even Worse Than Kevin McCarthy

Abraham Lincoln, this is your party on dopamine.

By Michael Tomasky

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Florida Goes Full McCarthy With Proposed Change to Kindergarten Curriculum

Florida Republicans have introduced a new bill that could require kindergarteners to learn about the "threat of communism."

By Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani

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On the Road in the Emerald Isle

Experience Ireland and Northern Ireland through a unique "dual narrative" perspective, with Catholic and Protestant tour guides sharing their communities’ histories and stories. You’ll enrich your understanding of the conflict’s personal nature, while gaining insight into how peace was built and the hard work so many are still doing to sustain it today.

By The New Republic

"Partisan Hit Job": Legal Experts Slam Special Counsel’s Biden Report

The special counsel’s Biden report is "entirely inappropriate," one former prosecutor said.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The Only Mental Acuity I’m Questioning These Days Is the Mainstream Media’s

What’s the greater potential for havoc and destruction of our way of life—the things Biden forgets, or the things Trump remembers?

By Michael Tomasky

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