Conor Friedersdorf
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David Moir / Reuters The Most Powerful Member of the Ruling Class
Using “the ruling class” and “overlords” as shorthand for Trump’s critics is Orwellian nonsense.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Trump’s Hate Makes the ‘Squad’ Stronger
The president gives his opponents media attention and enhances their influence on American life.
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Alex Brandon / AP Candidates Don’t Need Airtime, They Need Attention
Imagine a Netflix-type portal for short campaign videos.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Dismantling Tucker Carlson’s White-Supremacy Argument
The Fox News host’s recent segment was among the most poorly reasoned ever.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters What Ails the Right Isn’t (Just) Racism
An authoritarian fear of difference best explains the intolerance sweeping the Republican Party.
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Saul Loeb / Reuters Trump Failed to Stop American Carnage
It’s hard to feel that the U.S. is “great again” when men born and raised here keep going on mass killing sprees.
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Mike Segar / Reuters National Service Is a Terrible Idea
John Delaney’s plan amounts to forced labor.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters When Using Racist, Define Your Terms
Some reject the notion that they should apply the word consistently, without regard to whether the usage will upset their audience.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters ‘Send Her Back’: The Bigoted Rallying Cry of Trump 2020
The president’s supporters at a North Carolina rally showed contempt for naturalized citizens and the Constitution.
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Tom Tingle / The Arizona Republic via AP He Killed an Unarmed Man, Then Claimed Disability
The latest twist in the police shooting of Daniel Shaver
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Mark Tenally / AP If Trump Had a Primary Challenger
How a Republican could take on the president
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Richard Drew / AP Tucker Carlson Has Failed to Assimilate
The Fox News host betrayed core American values in his attack on Representative Ilhan Omar.
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Reuters The Progressive Nonargument Against Biden
Media elites aren’t talking about his electability or his policy proposals.
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Associated Press Independence Day in a Divided America
Much more so than in 1776, there is a widely held belief that all humans are created equal.
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Steve Helber / AP The Alt-Right’s Tactical Cruelty
The so-called alt-right is characterized not only by its ideology, but also by the cruelty of its tactics. Trump and his allies embrace those tactics.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters “There Is Only Trump”
Karl Rove and Rich Lowry discuss the murky future of the Republican Party.
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Romeo Ranoco / Reuters ‘We Have Been Lazy on Hate’
Farah Pandith wants the U.S. government and corporations to do more to combat radical extremists as they recruit Millennials.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters ‘Don’t Go After Old Uncle Joe Too Fast’
Chris Christie’s debate tips
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Lisi Niesner / Reuters Can Neurodiversity Defeat Doublethink?
Masha Gessen suggests there was a connection between Asperger’s and social activism in the Soviet era.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Christie’s Scathing Indictment of Trump
He declared his intention to vote Trump in 2020—even though he thinks Trump surrounded himself with awful people.
