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Michelle GoldbergThe New York Times |
His speech told us very little, at least explicitly, but revealed quite a lot.
Almost every ideology can be wielded to make women feel that they’re failing.
Never before has America arrived at the threshold of a quagmire so quickly.
Kent’s resignation letter is partly rooted in truth, even if it taps into old antisemitic tropes about occult Jewish control.
Even as he’s wrecking American institutions, he is revealing the limits of his cultural influence.
James Fishback has managed to bring the paranoid, transgressive, meme-drunk spirit of the right-wing internet into the real world.
Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it.
Netanyahu and his government deserve the growing bipartisan opprobrium they’re receiving.
There’s a huge political opportunity for the party that can stand up for human beings in the face of A.I.
All that matters to Trump is whether he thinks attacking Iran is in his interests.
A brisk theatrical thriller, “Data” perfectly captures the slick, grandiose language with which tech titans justify their potentially totalitarian...
Trump has thrust us into a new political world, and Democratic voters want leaders who can adapt.
It’s not just blue America where people are readying themselves for disaster.
To triumph in the modern Republican Party, you need to be able to wrench your soul into alignment with your ambition.
On immigration raids, the shooting death of Alex Pretti and where we go from here.
Progressives shouldn’t let a retrograde style of internet discourse inhibit them from pointing out the obvious.
In the MAGA imagination, white women are supposed to be helpmeets, not harpies.
Trump’s message, the emotional core of his movement, has always been textbook fascism.
Not even citizens are safe in Trump’s America.
To understand what’s unfolding in Venezuela, you have to look to the mob, not traditional foreign policy doctrines.
The technology Is ruining much of what makes life worth living.
It’s become easier to imagine the moment when Trump’s mystique finally evaporates.
The right mastered influencer politics. Now they’re tearing the movement apart.
There’s a big difference between being useful and being respected.
Olivia Nuzzi doesn’t seem to recognize that her collaboration with Robert Kennedy was a grave professional betrayal.
These organizations are squeezed between an expanding need for their services and an administration trying to starve them of resources.
The administration’s drug war rhetoric seems like a pretext. But a pretext for what?
Even if the Epstein files never come out, it’s increasingly clear that a Trump coalition is fragmenting.
Maybe there’s an innocent explanation for all the privileges she’s being accorded, but I can’t think of one.
A tech billionaire professes to hate identity politics, but they seem in some ways to consume him.
She has shown herself more willing than most to put aside her own ego for the greater good.
A white nationalist’s rise reveals a seemingly unstoppable ratchet of radicalization on the right.
A Senate candidate’s popularity reveals the depth of Democratic disaffection.
A perverse delight in degradation has always coursed through MAGA circles.
The reactionary centrism of the new Julia Roberts film.
MAGA is tearing itself apart over who really killed Charlie Kirk.
James Talarico sees a spiritual void at the center of our society.
“One Battle After Another” defies Trumpian taboos.
The alienated loners behind left-coded violence.
The talk of two states may be an alibi, not an aspiration.
Epstein’s victims won’t let Trump push their story aside.
MAGA would fill museums with self-glorifying kitsch, the aesthetic lingua franca of all authoritarians.
Being an anti-feminist, it turns out, is no shield against abusive male power.
When you’re MAGA, they let you do it.
There’s no more pretending that it’s rebellious to be reactionary.
From the director of “Midsommar,” a nightmare vision of our national descent.
Having nurtured conspiracy theories for his entire political career, he suddenly seems in danger of being consumed by one.
As Dan Osborn launches a new Senate campaign, he thinks some Republicans have buyer’s remorse.
Trying to stamp out anti-Israel rhetoric only lends it the frisson of forbidden truth.
It’s been maddening to see outsiders claim that his win in the mayoral primary was a victory for antisemitism.