Dazed and Confused: Does Trump Have a Plan?
Probably not. And for us that’s a damned good thing.
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Probably not. And for us that’s a damned good thing.
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What else would Trump do with a national treasure but plunder it?
What can “Adolescence” tell us about our country?
A story from the WhoWhatWhy Archive that will never grow old.
In addition to throwing shards of glass into the abyss, it’s time to start homing in on what you specifically can bring to this fight. We all have something.
America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It’s had surprising climate implications.
With strong virtue requirements for our allies, we may have a very virtuous movement, but also a very small one.
Defend our democracy now — or lose it.
A democratically elected, convicted felon for president; a neutered Supreme Court; a rubber-stamp Congress; a normalizing, compliant media and business community: What else can go wrong?
Critics describe Elon Musk’s guiding philosophy of longtermism as primed to justify “atrocities.”
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