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July 11, 2025

A New Far-Right American Party?

John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus

Elon Musk has disrupted Silicon Valley, the electric car industry, and the U.S. government. His next target: democracy itself.

July 11, 2025

Three Ways Inequality Undermines Democracy, 1970 to Trump

Nathan Meyers The Conversation

Democratic decline and inequality are not inevitable. But if restoring broad prosperity and social stability are the goals, they may require revisiting the New Deal-style policies.

July 11, 2025

MAGA Desperate To Prove Superman Isn’t an Immigrant but the Law Is Clear

Joe Patrice Above the Law

There's no legal argument that Superman is anything but an immigrant.

July 11, 2025

Why Do Fascists Dream of Alligators?

Asher Elbein Defector.com

The real animal is subsumed by the fantasy, in the way that the real human lives under threat—every man, woman and child under the gun of a government carried away with its own gleeful cruelty—become nameless statistics or worse, fodder for photo-ops

Zohran Mamdani Answers 30 Questions in Five Minutes

July 11, 2025

New York Magazine's extended interview with Zohran Mamdani from the Dinner Party series featuring the Democratic mayoral primary candidates

Elon’s Grok Chatbot Turns Hitler | The Daily Show

July 11, 2025

Ronny Chieng dives into AI: Elon Musk's Grok goes Nazi, a Marco Rubio imposter fools government officials, and Grace Kuhlenschmidt appreciates the mediocre world of AI-generated music. #DailyShow #AI #MarcoRubio #ElonMusk

Shocking Update on Epstein Prison Video

July 11, 2025

The 'raw' video. The 'client list.' It turns out nothing in the Jeffrey Epstein story is what the Trump officials have claimed.

Apocalypse in the Tropics | Documentary

July 11, 2025

Apocalypse in the Tropics investigates the increasingly powerful grip that evangelical Christian leaders hold over politics in Brazil, possibly holding a mirror up to the future of the rest of the world.

Canada Released Otters into a Dying Sea. Here's What Happened.

July 11, 2025

Marine biologists feared total collapse of the Pacific Coast ecosystem. But what if a species nearly wiped out by fur traders a century ago could bring it back to life?

July 11, 2025

The Dismantling of American Health Care

Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein and Staffie Woolhander The New York Review of Books

We must resist Trump’s war on medical access and knowledge today, even as we prepare to rebuild something better tomorrow.