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Our December issue—and our third to have @ZohranKMamdani grace the cover—is here. This one has @thomasbirm with an investigation into Israel's big real estate mogul, @simplylovia on Luca Guadagnino’s new campus film, Jonathan Lethem on Franz Kafka and his dog, and so much more.
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Donald Trump’s horrors have long backstories, including the war on drugs in Latin America. https://t.co/FGP4oadPiC
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How did we get to a moment when a president could order the serial killing of civilians, publicly share videos of the crimes, and find that the response is little more than a shrug?
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BREAKING: New polling has Democrat Aftyn Behn within 2 to 3 points of flipping a heavily GOP House district in 12/2 special election. Here’s an exclusive interview with Behn on why her campaign is surging. https://t.co/pvvzY9EDni
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The Democrat has a real chance to flip a deep-red congressional seat. In an exclusive interview, she explains why her bid is shaking up the politics of 2025 (and maybe 2026).
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The UN Security Council Resolution on Gaza may do as much damage to the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice as the Oslo accords did 30 years ago. It’s also may be in complete violation of the UN’s own rules. https://t.co/3tcpLXLaju
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The resolution is not only a possible violation of UN rules, it also makes the administration directly responsible for Palestinian oppression.
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In "The Season," Helen Garner considers the zeal and irrationality of fandom and her country’s favorite pastime, Australian rules football. https://t.co/yjprmaftx7
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In The Season, Helen Garner considers the zeal and irrationality of fandom and her country’s favorite pastime, Australian rules football.
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This Thanksgiving we should put another myth about the Pilgrims to rest. The Pilgrims did not leave Europe on the Mayflower to escape religious persecution, writes @JaneBorden. They wanted to found place where they could exert total control over culture. https://t.co/OBqXw43gpf
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The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
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The men in Epstein’s circle were accustomed to looking beneath the surface and pursuing what is hidden, wherever it leads, in science, language, world affairs. But about these women those men evinced a profound incuriosity. https://t.co/mPjBh3RF2S
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First of all, in order to ask questions about the young women he preyed on, they’d need to see them as people.
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If there is a parallel to be drawn between football and real life, it is perhaps through familial love, which ties us eternally to people we often do not understand. https://t.co/yjprmaftx7
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In The Season, Helen Garner considers the zeal and irrationality of fandom and her country’s favorite pastime, Australian rules football.
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Far from being an eternal symbol of Pilgrims-and-Indians lies, Thanksgiving was, for a good portion of its history, a symbol of social reform and Northern abolitionism—a day the white slaveholding South held in disdain and refused, for decades, to celebrate.
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The holiday’s real roots lie in abolition, liberation, and anti-racism. Let’s reconnect to that legacy.
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Proponents of the Golden Dome project argue that it’s now feasible because of new technologies being developed in Silicon Valley, from artificial intelligence to quantum computing. Those claims are, of course, unproven. https://t.co/anSiQg1T6f
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So far, the Golden Dome seems more like a marketing concept designed to enrich arms contractors and burnish Trump’s image rather than a carefully thought-out defense program.
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Nuzzi’s own book excerpt, devoted to her RFK Jr. obsession, is filled with banal efforts to conjure meaning from the attachment, while offensively employing the backdrop of Ventura County’s 2024 Mountain Fire, leveraging the planet’s climate crisis for still more clumsy
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The journalist’s rise and fall and rise again looks like a performance of tabloid drama. But really, it’s Beltway access reporting taken to its natural extreme.
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The real revisionism of Thanksgiving’s history is in whitewashing the abolitionist politics that once defined the day. https://t.co/5PyqA2C3Qr
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The holiday’s real roots lie in abolition, liberation, and anti-racism. Let’s reconnect to that legacy.
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If you study the path that Thanksgiving took on the way to its current culturally dominant presence in the calendar, it becomes clear that it’s low-key one of America’s wokest holidays. https://t.co/JhGmCGkfjU
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The holiday’s real roots lie in abolition, liberation, and anti-racism. Let’s reconnect to that legacy.
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Happy Thanksgiving! The Pilgrims were doomsday cultists!
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The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
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Despite the evidence that it will do next to nothing to defend us, President Trump remains all in on the Golden Dome project. Perhaps what he really has in mind, however, has little to do with actually defending us. https://t.co/anSiQg1T6f
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So far, the Golden Dome seems more like a marketing concept designed to enrich arms contractors and burnish Trump’s image rather than a carefully thought-out defense program.
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These were very young women cast into a sea of sharks. Where is the urge to protect that we are always being told is what being a man is all about? https://t.co/mPjBh3RF2S
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First of all, in order to ask questions about the young women he preyed on, they’d need to see them as people.
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The real revisionism of Thanksgiving’s history isn’t in acknowledging the truth of colonial violence but in whitewashing the abolitionist politics that once defined the day. https://t.co/JhGmCGkfjU
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The holiday’s real roots lie in abolition, liberation, and anti-racism. Let’s reconnect to that legacy.
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The domains of sports are, in Garner’s prose, rendered in detail almost as small still-life paintings, full of enchantment. https://t.co/yjprmaftx7
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In The Season, Helen Garner considers the zeal and irrationality of fandom and her country’s favorite pastime, Australian rules football.
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The more damning, and likely more accurate, moral of the Nuzzi set piece is that this is the business model of Olivia Nuzzi’s public career—together with the bloated and corrupt enterprise of Beltway journalism writ large. https://t.co/V8LvnvjwK2
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The journalist’s rise and fall and rise again looks like a performance of tabloid drama. But really, it’s Beltway access reporting taken to its natural extreme.
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So far, the Golden Dome seems more like a marketing concept designed to enrich arms contractors and burnish Trump’s image rather than a carefully thought-out defense program. https://t.co/anSiQg1T6f
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So far, the Golden Dome seems more like a marketing concept designed to enrich arms contractors and burnish Trump’s image rather than a carefully thought-out defense program.
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This Thanksgiving we should put another myth about the Pilgrims to rest. The Pilgrims did not leave Europe on the Mayflower to escape religious persecution, writes @JaneBorden. They wanted to found place where they could exert total control over culture. https://t.co/OBqXw43gpf
thenation.com
The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
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