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Mike Lofgren

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Trump regime isn’t fascist, claims leading intellectual: It just looks that way

Mark Lilla claims MAGA isn't even conservative, let alone fascist. This kind of cowardice won't age well

01.11.2025 10

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Creation of a political martyr: The dark history behind this moment

Charlie Kirk is not the first — totalitarian regimes have long understood how to build myths on violence

28.09.2025 9

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Will we even notice when democracy is gone?

Normal life continues for most of us, most of the time — but everything we took for granted is slipping away

01.09.2025 30

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Why Are Conservatives So Destructive? It’s Everyone Else’s Fault

27.08.2025 4

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We need a new theory of democracy — because this version has failed

It's time to look in the mirror, America: We chose catastrophe — there's no one else to blame

24.08.2025 7

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How did we get from the ’60s to Trump’s kitsch White House?

Our culture turned on itself, stagnated and went rancid — that's how

09.08.2025 5

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David Brooks faces the truth of US history — and runs away

NY Times' pet conservative offers a lengthy apologia for America — and gets pretty much everything wrong

26.07.2025 60

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America slides into totalitarianism — and it won't be easy to reverse

"Authoritarianism" is so 2018 — Donald Trump and his minions want to conquer all of civil society

22.06.2025 30

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Pete Rose, Donald Trump and the corruption of literally everything

Our president's meddling in baseball history: Another reminder that he ruins everything he touches

24.05.2025 10

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Republicans Want You to Die

13.05.2025 30

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Goose-steppers in the name of freedom: The nonsensical cult that now rules America

Trump's followers have embraced so many absurd, illogical contradictions they have no way back to reality. Do we?

05.04.2025 20

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The Last Taboo: Why Are Voters Never Held Responsible for Their Choices?

13.02.2025 4

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America’s elites are running interference for Donald Trump

“On the occasion of the great German victories, which have astonished an admiring world, we see the dawn of a new era in Europe that will carry...

01.11.2024 5

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Invasion of the MAGA body snatchers: How many friends have you lost to madness?

He was, looking back on it, a close friend, although we didn’t debate the state of our souls, something dorm room freshmen of all ages typically...

20.10.2024 20

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If JD Vance Is Wealthy, Why Did He Let His Own Mother Scrape by on Medicaid?

A sordid tale of Republican political and religious hypocrisy.

17.10.2024 10

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Sorry, Washington Post: Whitewashing a Nazi sympathizer isn't "debate"

Readers of my previous articles here will have noticed a heavy focus on history: historical periods as intriguing analogies to current events;...

21.09.2024 10

Salon

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Who spread vaccine disinformation in the Philippines? The US military did

In June, Reuters reported on a hitherto secret U.S. program connected with the COVID pandemic. In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus rapidly...

04.08.2024 50

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