If you remember back to ye olde days of a decade ago, Kristi Noem was a regular Republican politician. Sure, her positions were evil. But she just looked like a woman from South Dakota in her 40s. She liked guns and baby Jesus and seemed...
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Bird-banding may not seem like the most important casualty of Trumpism and maybe it's not. But it is a casualty nonetheless and a sign of just how stupid this nation.
I never cared about pieties around personal behavior and we have known forever that evangelicals are mostly gigantic hypocrites when it comes to personal behavior. Like many of us, I.
Democrats just caving to Trumpism on immigration (at the same time that he uses the openly Nazi language Miller and Bannon are feeding him; no of course he hasn't read Mein Kampf, with that Penn education he's never read a book in his life, but...
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to create heartburn for reactionary populists. Jacob Heilbrunn reports from an emergency gathering of crypto-fascist luminaries: It was notable that at.
Well, then. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told a federal court that hundreds of high-speed mail sorting machines he ordered removed cannot be returned to service because they were stripped for.
Paul already posted about Trump's latest foray into contemporary crypto-fascism, but I want to underscore a few things. A little over a year ago, I warned about "the repackaging of old-school anti-Semitism under the rubric of 'globalism' and attacks on George Soros." I concluded that...
That's one of the many interesting issues raised by Kate Antonova—an Associate Professor at Queen's College, CUNY—in a truly epic tweetstorm. She also storified the tweets and added some commentary. I’m a historian.
Over at my other digs, Kindred Winecoff is running a series called "World Politics in a Time of Populist Nationalism" (which, unfortunately, he's decided requires an acronym). They're all 'good' (if you.
Racists, let your freak flag fly. The message on the receipt rattled Sadie Karina Elledge, but it made her grandfather see red. Instead of leaving a gratuity on Monday, a couple eating at the Harrisonburg, Va., restaurant where Sadie works scrawled: “We only tip citizens.”...