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April 26, 2024

 

Laura Ingraham’s Angry Rants at Dem on Fox Reveal MAGA’s Dark Endgame

An Arizona Democratic congresswoman shoved the Fox host’s talking points back in her face Tuesday night. Why can’t more Democrats do that?

By Greg Sargent

 

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Why Neo-Nazis Are Obsessed With the Occult

The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very real atrocities—as seen in the recent parent killing in Wisconsin.

By Talia Lavin

 

Climate Change Has a Joe Rogan Problem

Large numbers of people currently get their information from nontraditional media sources. The information they’re getting about climate change isn’t very good.

By Kate Aronoff

 

Exiling Americans? This Isn’t Legal. It’s Not Even Close.

Trump is openly floating the idea of banishing "homegrowns" to Salvadoran prisons, with zero legal basis. This isn’t "deportation." It’s the kind of fascist lunacy that should be laughed out of the room—except his administration is actually considering it.

 

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Netflix’s Adolescence Speaks Directly to Parents’ Fears

If the hit miniseries about a 13-year-old murderer plays on adults’ anxiety about screens, it also evokes a deeper alarm about kids’ profound unknowability.

By Phillip Maciak

 

Which Past Fascist Does Trump Most Resemble? The Incompetent One.

Donald Trump’s narcissism bears a striking resemblance to Benito Mussolini’s. Which does not bode well.

By Alexander Stille

 

Decades Later, the Truth Behind a Grisly Mass Murder in El Salvador

The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No one has ever really gotten to the bottom of it—until now.

By George Black

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How the Radical Right Captured the Culture

Blame Hollywood’s "unwokening" and the extraordinary rise of right-wing podcasters on slop: intellectually bereft, emotionally sterile content that’s shaped by data and optimized for clicks.

By Ana Marie Cox

 

What’s the Matter with Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi?

Tech billionaires and iconoclast journalists suddenly see eye to eye.

By Jacob Bacharach

 

Bob on Film

Two Dylan films—one very popular, the other quite obscure—stand out from the rest.

By Win McCormack

 

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