Rep. Lauren Underwood is young, gifted, Black and flipped a Trump district
Can Trump Steal the Midterms? Six Takeaways from Our Election Investigation
On Thursday night, President Donald Trump is scheduled to address the nation and will reportedly repeat his false claim that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was stolen. Reports indicate that he’ll focus on, among other things, the Chinese acquisition of (publicly available) voter files and returns from Georgia, a state that Trump narrowly lost but whose results he sought have overturned, despite the state’s Republican governor and secretary of state insisting that voting was entirely above board. The address makes a recent piece, “Trump’s Election Subversion? Which ones are most concerning, and how you save…
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When Anti-Zionists Become Censors
The president of PEN quit for reasons that are morally confused, hypocritical and, yes, casually anti-Semitic.
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How to Save the IRS
DOGE broke the IRS. Former IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has thoughts on how to fix it.
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A Marine, Two Murders, and a War on Women
In 2001, my book, Twentynine Palms, about death near a California Marine base, exposed class and sexual violence in a military town. Some things are better now, many are not.
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Brief Encounter: A Letter from a 19th Century Physician to Donald Trump
What James Parkinson, of the eponymous disease, might say to the president about his promoting infamously unhealthy coal power.
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The UFC Cage Match Theory of Democracy
From plantation apologists to Silicon Valley’s philosopher-kings, a new book tracks how the case for a natural ruling class keeps coming back.
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Cory Doctorow Is Making Peace with AI
The tech maven is hip to the manic circular financing behind AI but isn’t freaked out about it being an existential threat.
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