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Parenting In the Age of Trump

Parenting In the Age of Trump Parenting In the Age of Trump

Like Sarah Connor, the heroine of the Terminator movies, Elie Mystal is trying to figure out how to prepare his children for the dystopian future.

Feb 4, 2025 / Elie Mystal

Kendrick Lamar performs during halftime in Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, in Inglewood, California.

The Super Bowl Will Be a Spectacle of Black Excellence, but You’ll Need to Tune Out MAGA’s White Whine The Super Bowl Will Be a Spectacle of Black Excellence, but You’ll Need to Tune Out MAGA’s White Whine

The NFL, to my shock, has not prematurely surrendered to Trump and Elon Musk’s agenda of Black erasure.

Feb 4, 2025 / Dave Zirin

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What the Neocons Do—and Don’t—Explain About Trump What the Neocons Do—and Don’t—Explain About Trump

The president’s foreign policy agenda remains unpredictable, but his war on liberal culture has deep roots.

Feb 4, 2025 / David Klion

Employees and supporters gather to protest outside of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters on February 3, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Signs of a New Anti-Trump Opposition Amid Elon Musk’s Coup Signs of a New Anti-Trump Opposition Amid Elon Musk’s Coup

Legislators and grassroots groups are showing new muscle in the wake of Musk’s weekend usurpation of power. It needs to ramp up, and quickly. And the media needs to cover it.

Feb 4, 2025 / Joan Walsh

“Summer Interior” by Edward Hopper, 1909. Located at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Vigdis Hjorth and the Novel of Ugly Love Vigdis Hjorth and the Novel of Ugly Love

In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its intense ambivalence in regards to love feels truer to life. ...

Feb 4, 2025 / Books & the Arts / David Schurman Wallace

Harvard’s New Speech Rules Continue Their Pattern of Repression

Harvard’s New Speech Rules Continue Their Pattern of Repression Harvard’s New Speech Rules Continue Their Pattern of Repression

The university’s adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism conflates critique of Israel with antisemitic speech, directly attacking pro-Palestine activism and academic free...

Feb 4, 2025 / StudentNation / Shraddha Joshi and Asmer Asrar Safi

Trump media microphones

The MAGA Assault on the Media Is Picking Up Steam The MAGA Assault on the Media Is Picking Up Steam

Paramount’s settlement negotiations with President Trump are just one example of the administration’s encroaching suppression of free speech.

Feb 3, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during the inaugural parade in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.

Who Will Stop Elon Musk’s Coup? Who Will Stop Elon Musk’s Coup?

The world’s richest man now has the power to override congressional spending decisions and access to private information about every US taxpayer.

Feb 3, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Trump border czar Tom Homan on CNN on January 27, 2025.

Think There’s Nothing You Can Do to Stop ICE? Think Again. Think There’s Nothing You Can Do to Stop ICE? Think Again.

Chicago’s years of organizing against immigration raids are a blueprint for real resistance to Trump’s attacks—as even his top goons acknowledge.

Feb 3, 2025 / Raeghn Draper

Chris Hayes on the Fight for Our Attention

Chris Hayes on the Fight for Our Attention Chris Hayes on the Fight for Our Attention

In this interview, the MSNBC host discusses Trump’s mastery of our age of attention, and his new book, The Sirens’ Call.

Feb 3, 2025 / Q&A / Jon Wiener

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