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“Bullsh*t”: Trump and JD Vance Snap Over Epstein Cover-Up Meeting
“Well we’re going to look at that. We’re talking about it, and they’re doing a very good job, and you know that is a pass,” Trump said. “Operation Warp...
Trump Fumbles Defense of RFK Jr. Gutting His Biggest Achievement
“Well we’re going to look at that. We’re talking about it, and they’re doing a very good job, and you know that is a pass,” Trump said. “Operation Warp...
The Democrats Are Blowing a Big Opportunity Right Now
So for someone like Hochul to say, “I’m tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back,” suggests that Democrats are learning from their nemeses. What’s...
Authoritarianism Is Made—and It Can Be Unmade
I am a historian of South Asia who moved to the United States in 2011. Almost immediately I was struck by how firmly the geographical distance of America from...
The Diversity Bell That Trump Can’t Un-ring
To be sure, many of these diverse people living within the borders of the United States were by design invisible. They were not all citizens. The first census of...
The Bat
How it careened, encircled by pokeweedand burdock, a shyer voiceuncrushed, wings making Vantablack halos overthe smallest port sips,sensuous in August tar, gooeyin humidity, like nights doing mascarain the rearview...
The High Price of Barring International Students
In fall 2024, I taught a first-year undergraduate seminar at Northwestern University named “Oil and Water in the Gulf of Mexico.” I was also the faculty adviser for the...
What if History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance?
The primary aim of the political right, said the president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, in early 2024, should be “institutionalizing Trumpism.” He and his organization meant this...
Federal Agents Directly Copy White Nationalists in Immigration Raid
The Department of Homeland Security was caught transporting Border Patrol agents in a Penske moving van, a tactic they seem to have borrowed directly from the white nationalist militia...
