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When Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, the boys crowed and the girls cried. At least that’s what America’s elite media told us. Sixteen-year-old Naomi ­Beinart reported in...

Politicians tussling with celebrities is usually seen as degrading to the politician. We want our singers, actors, and athletes to be both skilled and a little (or a lot)...

The New Power Elite by heather gautney oxford university, 336 pages, $29.95 In the annals of quixotic American presidential runs, the candidacy of Cornel West—the seventy-year-old academic, social critic,...

The queering of mainstream American culture has no more dramatic exemplar than the drag queen. RuPaul’s Drag Race, which began in 2009 as a competition reality show on the...

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibitionby mark lawrence schradoxford, 752 pages, $23.80 Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States aspired to be a full-spectrum telling...

CNN dubbed Tuesday’s electoral results a “nightmare” for Democrats. The network’s political commentator Van Jones deemed them a “five-alarm fire.” In a race no one expected to be close,...

America’s abortion regime and the absolutist ideology that animates it is part of a war by the powerful on the weak. This is true not only because it targets...

The Elect:Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive Americaby john mcwhorter substack, $5/month Cynical Theories:How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This...

For decades Americans and Brits have looked across the Atlantic at one another, seeking omens of the political future. Margaret Thatcher’s neoliberal turn in 1979 was matched by the...

In March 1791 the United States Congress passed the Whiskey Act, the new government’s first excise tax on a domestically produced product. Shortly afterward the United States of America’s...

The story of the defeat of Donald Trump was supposed to be one of “black and brown” voters rising up against the man Joe Biden deemed “one of the...

Amid the tumult of Election Night turned Election Week 2020, two United States senators made a striking and politically revolutionary claim: The Republican party will become a multiethnic, multiracial,...

How to Be an Antiracistby ibram x. kendi one world, 320 pages, $27 White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by robin diangelo...

In June 1970, America’s first gay pride parades hit the streets. Four U.S. cities—New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco—hosted crowds ranging from several hundred to a few...

Last Tuesday’s election results confirmed what most observers strongly suspected after the Super Tuesday returns a week earlier: Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020....