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How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World
The second major turn is the neoconservatives’ fashioning of this new concern about the campus into a moral panic over “political correctness” in the 1990s. By examining that older...

The Smarter Anti-Trump Resistance: More Facts, Less Outrage
I’ll get to that, but first, an admission: I confess I’ve been mystified by this lack of alarm. I’ve said and written many times that I understand MAGA true...

Time for Democrats to Get Out of the Bipartisanship Business
The problem, of course, is that the rug-pull always arrives too late for the conned to prevent. While we are waiting for these bills to come due, however, Trump...

Pete Hegseth Is the Perfect Trumpworld Monster
The last time I saw Hegseth was in 2019. We were friendly from having crossed paths in cable news greenrooms over the years, and I was wooing him for...

Could New York Fight Fascism with Climate Policy?
It’s fitting that NYPA was founded by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1931, as Americans—and people worldwide—were struggling for economic survival in the Great Depression and the Nazi Party...

Trump Allies Rage at Each Other as Latest Pick Too Nutty Even for MAGA
Donald Trump’s top allies are already furiously at war with each other over the transition, according to The Washington Post. Meanwhile, Trump just tapped anti-Islam extremist Sebastian Gorka for...

What Don’t the Democrats Get? Almost Everything.
I feel that a lot of what circulates in the liberal media bubble is shaped by the fact that most of the writers have never faced eviction, have never...

Trump AG Pick Pam Bondi Is About to Regret What She Just Signed Up For
There’s still another unsettling consideration here. If and when Trump pardons the January 6 attackers, media commentary will exude a strong push toward “turning the page” and “looking forward,...