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The City That Wouldn’t Flinch: Zohran Mamdani and the Civics Test Nobody Studied For
There is a special kind of civic panic that arrives when hope polls above forty percent. It hums like a subway third rail, invisible until someone grounded enough dares to touch it. That, apparently, is the mood of New York City on the eve of its mayoral election, where Zohran Mamdani, a 32-year-old socialist assemblyman
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Jonathan Bailey: The Sexiest Man Alive, His Dog, and the Fine Print of Progress
It is both poetic and suspicious that in 2025, the first openly gay man to be named PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive revealed the honor to his dog before anyone else. Jonathan Bailey, a thirty-seven-year-old actor best known for his corset-inducing turn in Bridgerton, his Emmy-nominated heartbreak in Fellow Travelers, and his upcoming high-flying role in
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Democrats Don’t Need Better Candidates They Need To Give Them The Mic And Get Out Of The Way
There is a certain kind of strategy meeting that feels like a hostage situation with snacks. A windowless conference room, a lonely fern, a PowerPoint with too many gradient arrows, and ten people who confuse caution with wisdom. Someone says the word “authentic” while polishing a sentence that has never met a human mouth. Someone
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The Widow and the Wife: Erika Kirk, Usha Vance, and the JD Vance’s Dance of Complicity
It takes a special kind of choreography to turn grief into a political audition, and an even rarer kind of grace to turn moral silence into career insulation. The American right has produced both this year. On one hand, you have Erika Kirk, the freshly widowed tradwife turned opportunist stage darling, and on the other,
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Problem Solved: When Math Teachers Became MAGA’s Latest Enemies of the State
In the country that once invented public education, the new national pastime is death threats. Last week, a group of math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona discovered that their Halloween costumes—a recurring staff joke shirt that read Problem Solved splattered with fake red ink—had been rebranded by the internet as evidence of moral
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The Ocean’s 107 Days Problem: George Clooney and the Art of Missing the Point
There’s something almost poetic about George Clooney criticizing the Democratic Party from an Italian villa while American democracy keeps coughing up blood in the background. It’s like watching a man deliver a eulogy for a house he helped burn down, except he’s doing it over espresso, wearing a watch that costs more than a precinct’s
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60 Minutes of Trump Lies: The Interview, the Merger, and the Silence That Follows
A president in a gilded ballroom sells tariffs as salvation and testing as deterrence, a network in a deal cycle sells the interview as a moon landing, and somewhere between the wand and the wine glass the public is asked to accept the headline as the truth, not the truth as the headline. It begins
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The Great Gatsby 2: Trump’s Halloween Feast While America Starves
Every generation gets the Gatsby it deserves. In the 1920s, it was Jay. In 2025, it’s Donald. One spent his fortune chasing a dream across the bay. The other rented out an entire country and called it Mar-a-Lago. This week’s masquerade ball at the Winter White House wasn’t just a Halloween party—it was performance art.
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When the Substitute Teacher Runs the School: Obama’s Return and the Democrats’ Echo Problem
There are few sights as surreal as watching a former president outshine his successors while trying not to. Barack Obama, ten years out of office, has become the most effective voice in the Democratic Party again, not because nostalgia sells, but because competence apparently does. His reemergence on the campaign trail for down-ballot Democrats feels
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The Tucker Carlson Extremist Stress Test: How to Burn a Movement in One Interview and Call It Free Speech
If there were ever a competition for “most predictable outrage cycle in American politics,” Tucker Carlson would have the trophy, the lifetime supply of microphones, and a commemorative mug reading I Platformed a Fascist and All I Got Was This Engagement Spike. Because this week, Carlson gave airtime to Nick Fuentes, a man whose résumé