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Tucker Flexes His Big Man Muscles
With his bozo ode to testosterone, Tucker Carlson joins the ranks of Mussolini, Berlusconi, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump in a pose of cartoon virility. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present joins Virginia on this week’s This is Critical
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There's nothing ironic about Payton Gendron
Payton Gendron, the only suspect in the Buffalo mass murder, identifies explicitly as a white supremacist fascist. He adds that he has neo-Nazi beliefs…
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May 18
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Resources for a Post-Roe World
Today, as pro-abortion and -choice rallies storm center squares all over the country and persist in the rain here in New York, I’ve put together a list…
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May 14
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The Deeply Weird Mind of Elizabeth Holmes
In “The Dropout,” showrunner Liz Meriwether created a fictional version of audacious megascammer Elizabeth Holmes. How was Meriwether able to humanize a…
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May 12
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The easy way to be on the right side of things
Have you ever tried to break up with someone and tried to make it seem like their idea? Or had this happened to you? What a spot-on description of this…
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May 11
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The red tape wins
Peter Biskind’s 1999 page-turner Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex Drugs and Rock-n-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood told the story of the irritable…
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May 9
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Will Musk Bring Gamergate Back to Twitter?
The news that Twitter has a new emperor got people riled up. But what will Elon Musk's takeover really mean for the platform? In this week’s This is…
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May 5
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Flipping the Script at Amazon
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in New York shocked the company and voted to unionize this month. It was a David-and-Goliath victory. This week on This…
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Apr 28
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