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Hyperspeed of the Immediate

The Nostalgia Trap

July 18, 2018

The Nostalgia Trap podcast, hosted by David Parsons and produced by Peter Sabatino, features weekly conversations about history and politics with some of the left’s most incisive thinkers, writers, and extremely online personalities, exploring how individual lives intersect ...

Trump’s Baby-Cager

Josh Fruhlinger

June 28, 2018

Stephen Miller told a high school classmate, “I can’t be your friend any more because you are Latino.”

Out of Sight, Out of Our Minds

Ed Burmila

June 20, 2018

The people in Australia's island detention facilities have been exploited at every turn. They're a model of where we're headed.

Can Liberals Give Peace a Chance?

Max B. Sawicky

June 18, 2018

There is no threat to the U.S. for the simple reason that all parties understand that any use of nuclear weapons would invite total destruction. Deterrence is a given.

At the Columbia University Strike

Will Augerot

April 27, 2018

Graduate students unite as the university leans on the Trump administration.

Attorney-Tyrant Privilege

Ed Burmila

April 11, 2018

Anyone with eyes could see it coming: Trump has merged himself with the state.

Festung High School

Ed Burmila

March 27, 2018

Trump's “hardening” of schools in the wake of recent shootings is a reversion to the bunker mentality of the nuclear age.

Is Trump the New Clinton?

Musa al-Gharbi

March 06, 2018

If Democrats are hoping Robert Mueller's investigation will bring down Trump, they could be in for another defeat in 2020.

Communicator Breakdown

Tom Carson

January 31, 2018

Trump’s fledgling State of the Union deliberately sought to conceal a multitude of sins.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 26, 2018

Pass Go, Collect $2.8 billion. This week, Amazon inched us further into our nightmarish future with the opening of Amazon Go: a grocery store without checkout lines or cashiers but chock full of cameras that sense, record, and charge you automatically for every impulse ...

The Year History Died

Maximillian Alvarez

January 18, 2018

In the battle over who gets to wield history’s power, if we continue to play by the assumption that history has “ended,” we will lose.

Radiating Racism

Rafia Zakaria

January 16, 2018

Until we recognize our common humanity with the poor, it's a shithole world.