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The Three Tribes of MAGA Men March 14, 2025
In 1989 David Duke, former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, was elected to Louisiana’s house of representatives. At college, he had marched around campus in a Nazi uniform; by the time he was running the Klan in the Seventies, he was enforcing besui...
How Tesla Became the New MAGA Hat March 14, 2025
“It’s Tesla, baby!” tweeted Lily Tang Williams, posting a video of herself in a tie-dyed sweatshirt inside her brand-new Tesla Model Y. A twice-defeated Republican congressional candidate in New Hampshire, Williams told her X followers that she had b...
The New Woke Right Wants Its Own Safe Space March 04, 2025
In the 2010s, a certain kind of social justice activist took a hard turn against the mainstream media. The rancor was of a different flavor than the Chomskyian critiques of corporate media and the consent it allegedly manufactured. It wasn’t so much ...
The Godfather of the Maga Right February 27, 2025
At 9.39am on 18 February, Steve Bannon walked into his basement studio in Washington DC, placed three iPhones on the table, hoisted the blinds and started ripping newspapers out of plastic packets: the Washington Times, the Financial Times, the Wall ...
MAGA is Failing Because It's Succeeding February 13, 2025
I’ve had a horrible cold for the past week, which has made processing recent events in DC even more disorienting and surreal than it was already bound to be.I went to bed congested and woke up to the US feuding with Canada. Just kidding, we’ve actual...
My Afternoon With the ‘Normal Gay Guys’ Who Voted Trump February 11, 2025
Not long ago I went to a party at a penthouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A young man in a tuxedo greeted me at the door and ushered me into a well-appointed living room, where a fire glowed in a corner and prints of ancient Greek temples overloo...
The Deep State Loves Free Trade February 05, 2025
The American trade paradigm is shifting in favor of tariffs, and free trade ideologues are resorting to increasingly contrived arguments to oppose them. Insisting that tariffs harm growth and spawn economic inefficiency hasn’t worked very well—if the...
The Raunchy Right Has Triumphed February 04, 2025
Is the MAGA babe calendar what Making America Hot Again looks like?...
How MAGA Won the ‘Sensitive Young Man’ February 03, 2025
The “great man” theory of history lost favor a century ago, and for decades university faculty have found it quaint, vulgar, or problematic. Like other ideas that right-thinking people long ago discarded, its disreputable status hasn’t stopped many f...
Trump and MAGA Embrace Their Own Form of Wokeness January 30, 2025
With Donald Trump, it is perpetually difficult to gauge what matters and what doesn’t — where does the bluster end and the change begin, and how seriously should we take him at all? Will Hillary actually get locked up? Will Greenland get conquered? H...
MAGA Is the New Black January 29, 2025
Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday marked the promised return of things that many Americans would say make the country great: secure borders, law and order, two genders, American ingenuity—and, not the least of these, good fashion....
The Alliance Between Tech Titans & the MAGA Faithful January 20, 2025
On Sunday evening, the night before Donald Trump’s second inauguration, scores of “luminaries from across the New Right” are expected to gather for a dinner and gala called the Coronation Ball at the Watergate Hotel. The event is being hosted by the ...
America Should Not Become a Nation of Tiger Moms January 01, 2025
A rift in the MAGA coalition emerged last week as Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk—co-chairs of DOGE, a Trump advisory committee—advocated for more H-1B visas, angering immigration hard-liners in the GOP base. Generally, the debate over H-1B is an econo...
Why America’s Zoomers Are Turning MAGA July 16, 2024
Tatem Carroll, an 18-year-old in Oregon’s Rogue Valley, just graduated high school. She used to think that once she got her diploma, she’d “get the hell out” of her parents’ house. Now, she says she’s “scared shitless” about the future. “I’m like, am...
The Ghost Who Haunts the MAGA Revolt May 29, 2024
Over the past half-decade, few intellectuals have undergone a renaissance like Christopher Lasch — and few renaissances have been quite as startlingly heterodox. After the 2016 election, Lasch’s posthumous 1994 book Revolt of the Elites was cited as ...
All the Rage May 27, 2024
Since the 2016 ascent of Donald Trump, politicos and the media have been warning that rural white America now poses an existential threat to democracy. So dangerous are what Joe Biden has called “semi-fascists” and “ultra-maga” reactionaries that the...
MAGA World Is About to Meet Taylor Swift’s Fandom February 02, 2024
Taylor Swift has many titles: cultural juggernaut; international pop star; billionaire businesswoman. She can now add MAGA conspiracy theory target to the list.Far-right internet personalities and even a former Republican presidential candidate are s...
