A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.
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The Immigration-Obsessed, Polarized, Garbage-Fire Election of 1800
A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.
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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Sam Kriss, in a post he calls his “magnum opus” in The Outline, explores the age-old warning not to stare directly at the sun.
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MAWA! The Christian Alt-Right Wants to Make America White Again
Sarah Posner introduces some of the main players in “alt-right Christianity” in her exploration of American Evangelicals’ embrace of Trump.
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Letters to Donald Trump
Barbara Zitwer, Colm Tóibín, Elham Manea, Linda Coverdale, Kyung-sook Shin, and Anne Landsman share their stories of immigration to protest Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban as an abomination in a country built and fuelled by people from away.
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Who’s Been Seeding the Alt-Right? Follow the Money to Robert Mercer
Jane Mayer profiles hedge fund manager, alt-right supporter, political funder, and Ayn Rand-wannabe Robert Mercer in the New Yorker.
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What Happens When You Stare at the Sun?
“The injunction not to look directly into the sun isn’t just medical — it’s always political.”
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Amazing Disgrace
How did Donald Trump — a thrice-married, biblically illiterate sexual predator — hijack the religious right?
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I’m Trans, Disabled, And Tired Of Fighting To Get Into Bathrooms
Christian McMahon remembers growing up transgender and disabled and implores us to remember that acknowledging someone’s humanity is a lot more than simply allowing them to use the washroom they prefer. Acknowledging his unearned privilege as “a small white man with a disability,” he reminds us that everyone deserves the basic human “right to exist […]
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The Reclusive Hedge Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency
How Robert Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency.