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Tag: US Politics

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GOP’s Islamophobia Surge and the Christian Nationalist Agenda. Interview with Robert Downen – 12 March 2026

This week on Reign of Error, host Sarah Posner speaks with Texas Monthly senior writer Robert Downen about how long-standing anti-Muslim activism has moved from

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Sarah Rogers Leads Trump’s Plan to Fund Far-Right Groups in Europe, by GPAHE – 20 February 2026

From Global Project Against Hate and Extremism As Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Sarah B. Rogers is leading a Trump administration grantmaking strategy

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DHS, Nazi Propaganda & the MAGA New Right. Interview with Laura K. Field – 12 February 2026

This week on Reign of Error, host Sarah Posner examines the Department of Homeland Security’s use of neo-Nazi and white nationalist imagery in ICE recruitment

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Zionism Was Never a Single Concept. We Should Be Grateful to JFNA’s Survey for the Reminder, by Joel Swanson – 9 February 2026

From JTA Only about one-third of American Jews are Zionists, according to a recent survey conducted by the Jewish Federations of North America — the

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“The Hard Hat Riot” Documentary Repackages Right-Wing Mantras About Class and History, by Comrade Motopu – 27 January 2026

From the hardhat riot in 1970 to Minneapolis and ICE murdering protesters in 2026, the Right has created narratives that dehumanize the Left to justify

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The ICE Storm: A Year-Long Escalation, by Christina Pagel – 26 January 2026

From Making Sense… What we are seeing in Minneapolis right now is horrendous, frightening, and heartbreaking. But it is not a surprise. Over the past

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The U.S. Strike in Nigeria: A Roundup of Critical Reporting and Analysis, by Alex Thurston – 15 January 2026

Militarily ineffective and politically harmful The December 25 U.S. airstrikes on/in Nigeria, ordered by President Donald Trump, are being subjected to considerable critical scrutiny by

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How the Far-Right is Reacting to Trump’s Assault on Venezuela, by Shane Burley – 14 January 2026

From Maiseh Review 2026 began with several shocking moments of violence, including the devastating killing of legal observer Renee Goode in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which led

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The Far Right Is Quietly Building Power Under Trump, by Spencer Sunshine – 6 January 2026

From The New Republic Extremist groups are some of the biggest winners of the second Trump administration. The first year of Donald Trump’s second term

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Monroe Doctrine Redux: New Americanism and the Echoes of Empire in China and Japan, by Craig A. Smith – 5 January 2026

The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation—one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and

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Charlie Kirk’s Memory Is the Only Thing Uniting AmericaFest Attendees, by Joe Lowndes – 23 December 2025

From New Lines Magazine This year’s edition of Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference, held last weekend in Phoenix, was, first and foremost, a tribute

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Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies, by Alan Elrod – 20 October 2025

From Liberal Currents The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans. “The

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Book reviews

A Family Business, by Kim Phillips-Fein – 14 October 2025

From The Nation Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper 2024 Ever since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, liberals and the left

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Oracle Invested Millions in Government Influence before Winning a Major Stake in TikTok, by David Levinthal – 25 September 2025

Oracle isn’t quite a household name on par with other American technology companies such as Microsoft, Meta or Apple. But Oracle nevertheless ranks among the

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Interviews Podcasts

The Minority Voters Moving Right. Interview with Daniel Martinez HoSang – 18 August 2025

A major topic following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election has been his gains with racial and ethnic minorities, a trend that’s scrambled

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Anti-Racism, Class and History. Interview with David Roediger – 15 July 2025

Historian David Roediger discusses some of the people who’ve influenced him,white workers and Black struggles in the U.S., and some aspects of anti-racisttheory and politics

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Revolutionary Roads and Marxism Today. Interview with Kevin Anderson – 9 July 2025

What does the work of late Marx tell us about anti-colonial and indigenous struggles’ role in overcoming capitalism? What are the revolutionary trajectories of our

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Against Dumb Antiliberal Leftist Antifascism, by Jonathan Korman – 18 June 2025

A friend shared a social media post to me: Liberalism is not anti-fascist as it is coupled with an economic system (capitalism) that leads to

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The Israeli Embassy Murders as a Rorschach Test, by Alexander Reid Ross – 3 June 2025

From New Lines Magazine. Reactions from both the left and the right to the shooting of the diplomatic staffers in Washington reveal a troubling ideological

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The Coming Jewish Civil War Over Donald Trump, by Eric Alterman – 8 May 2025

From The New Republic Trump is offering American Jews a kind of devil’s bargain: throw in with us against the antisemitic universities and campus rabble-rousers,

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Trump’s Imperialism – 5 April 2025

Trump was never a peace candidate. From his early Reform Party days to his “America First” doctrine, he wasn’t seeking an end to U.S. empire.

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It’s Regular Old Racism, Not ‘Hinduphobia’, by Somdeep Sen – 27 February 2025

From Al-Jazeera Trump’s return to power exposed an underbelly of anti-Indian racism in the MAGA-verse. Hindi nationalists who support him are working hard to conceal

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Postdemocracy in America. Interview with Joe Lowndes – 23 February 2025

In 2016 and then again four years later, something unprecedented almost happened in American politics. Bernie Sanders, an outsider hailing from the left, came close

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America’s Multiracial Right: Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes interviewed by Eric Maroney – February 2025

From New Politics Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes are the authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).

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Late Neoliberalism. Interview with Quinn Slobodian – 1 February 2025

When Donald Trump won the presidential election for the first time, the initial shock, among liberals and progressives, soon gave way to two kinds of

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How Big Tech Made Trump 2.0. Interview with Cory Doctorow – 10 December 2024

There are a lot of similarities between the 2016 and 2024 elections, but the media ecosystem we have today is fundamentally different from the ecosystem

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Articles

Trump: First Lessons and First Battles, by Arguments Pour la Lutte Sociale – 6 November 2024

Trump’s victory is huge: at 3pm today (French time), he wins in terms of absolute votes – more than 71.3 million compared with nearly 66.5

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Understanding the Rise of the Multiracial Right—And Why It Matters, by Daniel Martinez HoSang – 30 October 2024

Over the last decade, supporters of the Republican Party and conservative political movements have become more diverse, with the movement attracting increasing numbers of Latinos, African

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Hindu Supremacy and the Multiracial U.S. Far Right, by Savera – 30 October 2024

In July 2024, hundreds of influential far-right leaders gathered to network at the “National Conservatism” conference, or “NatCon,” in Washington, D.C. While the event was

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Pro-Natalism – 27 August 2024

In this episode of In Bed With The Right, Moira walks Adrian through the long, creepy history of pro-natalism, and its resurgence amongst conservatives. It

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Tulsi Gabbard’s Krishna Consciousness. Interview with Nitai Joseph – 4 May 2023

What does it mean for a prominent American politician to come into power as the sleeper cell of an eccentric Hindu-American cult? Does she act

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Antisemitism is a GOP Growth Opportunity in Minority Communities, by David Schraub – 11 November 2021

When Marjorie Taylor Greene found herself approvingly quoting Nation of Islam conspiracy theories and noting the “common ground” between the GOP and the NoI, many laughed.

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Articles Book reviews

The PMC Meets the Tucker Carlson Left, by Comrade Motopu – 21 February 2021

Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Catherine Liu on the political spectrumThis essay

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I Beg to Differ with Xu Jilin & Co.:  The Intellectual Trap of the (Anti-) Political Correctness Framing, by Yao Lin – 14 July 2020

On the evening of June 22, the East China Normal University-University of British Columbia Joint Research Center on China and the World organized a discussion

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