The Fight Against Right-Wing Appalachian ‘School Choice’ Politics Is a Fight for Democracy and the Future of American Education
In October 2024, a flyer appeared in the mailboxes of Kentucky residents, promoting an amendment…
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Women’s Liberation Front Attempts to Liberate Women’s Sports from Gender Equality
In June 2024, a group of anti-trans feminists crisscrossed the U.S. with right-wing women activists to “take…
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We Called For Better Responses to Campus Antisemitism—and the ADL Threatened to Withdraw Sponsorship
On March 23, I delivered a talk at the 4th annual Law and Antisemitism conference…
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What Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Says About White Christian Nationalism and The Politics of Repression
Mahmoud Khalil’s harrowing and unlawful detention on March 8th captured widespread attention after plain-clothes ICE…
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Trump’s Pick for FDA Commissioner Hedges on the Abortion Pill, which is safer than Tylenol, Viagra, or giving birth
During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Trump nominee Dr. Marty Makary equivocated on whether Americans…
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Exalted Insurrectionists, Kremlin-Friendly Bombast, and a Smattering of Nazi Salutes — Notes from CPAC 2025
Matt and Mercedes Schlapp opened this year’s CPAC by celebrating: “Last year I said globalism…
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Even RFK’s More Benign-Sounding Rhetoric is Rooted in the Dangerous Ideology Set to Guide U.S. Health Policy
Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Measles-dismisser, nepo-baby, bear cub-dumper, and vaccine skeptic,…
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‘Clever Girl’ Explains Why Dinosaurs are Queer and Feminist — and Jurassic Park is a Toolkit for the Apocalypse
Everything happens so much these days, and so very much of it is very bad…
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Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’ Expertly Dismantles Pro-Israel Propaganda — But Does it Adequately Reckon with the Genocide?
The ambitious intentions of Peter Beinart’s new book are evident from the title: Being Jewish…
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JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins
On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the…
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