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Trump’s Coachella Rally Went About as Well as You’d Expect
Thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters reportedly found themselves stranded Saturday night after the former president’s rally in Coachella, California.Attendees were bussed roughly five miles from parking to the venue...
The Insidious Legal Theory Behind the Abortion Rights Rollback
This is strikingly similar to the penalization schemes active in numerous states today, which often provide specific criminal and civil penalties for those helping others to get abortions—but expressly...
You Can’t Measure Human Life in Dollars
It will take some time to know the full scope of the damage caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Early estimates suggest Milton caused between $30 and 50 billion...
Stop Trying to Understand the White Rural Voter
Many of Hochschild’s conclusions are sound but not particularly striking. She observes both here and in Strangers in Their Own Land that many of her subjects feel that others—minorities,...
The Media Has Three Weeks to Learn How to Tell the Truth About Trump
Donald Trump keeps getting worse and worse. Last Friday in Aurora, Colorado, he gave a speech that was both bonkers and fascist, asserting that the city—where crime is down...
States Need to Do What National Leaders Won’t
In the past few weeks, it has become abundantly clear that no matter who moves into the White House in January, much of the vital work of greening the...
Three Critical Arguments Harris Needs to Make in These Final Days
Our exhausting permanent presidential campaigns eventually lead us to this point: less than one month to go, the home stretch, the closing argument. It’s taken a lot for Democrats...
Trump’s Rally Just Went Full Nazi With Bloodthirsty Immigration Threat
Donald Trump has once again evoked Nazi rhetoric. At a rally in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, the Republican presidential nominee weaponized violent and dehumanizing language to describe immigrants, referring...
Trump Invents Wild Election Fantasy About Biden, Harris, and Clinton
Donald Trump invented some more fanfiction about the presidential election Friday, imagining a world where Kamala Harris was replaced as the Democratic candidate.During a scattered anti-immigrant rant at a...
North Carolina Governor Slams Trump’s “Flat Out Lie” on Hurricane
Despite the fact that his state is still recovering from Hurricane Helene, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper was forced to use his time to debunk misinformation spread by Donald...
