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Tucker Carlson and why selling GOP groupthink had to end
With so many people centered on the same lie featuring the same private firm, it’s hard to think of better conditions for striking back.
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The ‘crisis of masculinity’ is the absence of a rich inner life
Most think the solution is ramping up “manliness.” It’s not.
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Why do the Republicans keep proving their ‘semi-fascism’?
They could just ignore Biden’s claim, but don’t.
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Tucker Carlson’s ‘The End of Men’ is just ridiculous. It's also a sign of liberal democracy in crisis
Take it seriously.
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No, Carlson, Greenwald and the rest are not in Russian pay
My editor is wrong. It's worse than that.
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The myth of the US funding secret biolabs in Ukraine is an old Russian disinfo campaign. Rightwing dupes are falling for it
The latest smear of a US program to help former Soviet republics.
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Want people to get vaccinated? Pay them
We should value every life.
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Your friendly neighborhood sociologist: What we talk about when we talk about white supremacy
It’s not what it used to be.
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Not your dad’s conservatives: Today’s GOP wants candidates to say how they’ll use the state to keep white people on top
See Glenn Youngkin’s vow to ban "CRT."
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To fight vaccine disinfo, first understand how anti-vaxxers coopt science to spread it
We should worry less about the ravings of anti-vaxxers obsessed with microchips, and more about the falsehoods that, enjoying a patina of scientific authority, are harder to identify and harder to correct.
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Lawlessness is a feature of the Republican Party, not a bug
The five most conservative justices, and their allies in state legislatures, have devised a model for using a procedure called the “shadow docket” to weaponize lawlessness against court precedents they don’t like.