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John Fetterman for President?
He might just be the president America needs right now — and he's most definitely the president it deserves.
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Jacob Bielecki
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This Machine Rages Back: An Interview With Ewan Morrison
Ewan Morrison's For Emma is billed as a sci-fi thriller, but it’s just as much a work of deeply philosophical horror.
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Jamie Paul
Activism Hasn’t Been Effective for Decades. What Happened?
A postmortem.
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Jamie Paul
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How to Actually "Do Your Own Research"
An editor's guide to fact-checking and fact-finding.
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Jamie Paul
Reverse Psychology is a Political Superpower Waiting to Happen
People whose opinions are shaped by blindly opposing the Bad People™ can be made to believe anything.
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Jamie Paul
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Dispatches From the Trenches of Online Pro-Palestine Activism
Since October 7th, 2023, we’ve covered the Israel-Palestine conflict quite a bit.
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Jamie Paul
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Johan Pregmo
The Lost Lessons of the Bath School Massacre
The forgotten story of America’s first mass killing shows that it’s not only killers who slip through the cracks.
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Jacob Bielecki
How to Make Sense of the Trump News Cycle
With Trump's unprecedented blizzard of executive orders, a crash course in government can help parse the political stunts from the serious threats.
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James West
The “Roaring 2020s” and Other False Rhymes of History
Those who know only a little history are doomed to see it repeating everywhere they look.
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Jamie Paul
It’s Time To Bring the Oldest Profession Into the Light
The arguments for maintaining the prohibition of prostitution aren’t just irrational, prudish, and harmful — they’re un-American.
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Jamie Paul
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Abolishing the Department of Education Isn’t Conservative — It’s Reckless Vandalism
Argue for radical change if you must, but don't call it conservative.
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Mike Burke
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The Hebrew Hammer: The Hank Greenberg Story
With Nazism raging overseas and hatred brewing at home, American Jews needed someone to be the symbol of their strength. Hank Greenberg became their…
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Jacob Bielecki
DOGE Isn’t Conservative — It’s Radical Arson
Burning down institutions in the blind hope that something better will rise from the ashes is a revolutionary, time-tested recipe for ruin.
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Mike Burke
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I Passed Out at the Wheel of a Moving Car So You Don’t Have To
Or, how I learned to live with the guilt of not being superhuman.
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Jamie Paul
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