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Burning Bush

Gene Seymour Bookforum
How the early ’90s set the stage for America’s crooked present.

The Election Story Nobody Wants To Talk About

Rick Perlstein The American Prospect
A Q&A with David Neiwert, America’s foremost writer and thinker on far-right extremism, on what might happen if Trump wins—or loses

Why the Uncommitted Movement Was a Success at the DNC

Waleed Shahid Jacobin
Political strategist Waleed Shahid explains why the Uncommitted movement’s organizing at the Democratic National Convention should be seen as successfully moving the needle within the Democratic Party toward justice for Palestine.

Blink Twice and the Problem With #MeToo Thrillers

Adrian Horton The Guardian
Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut joins a microgenre of films, from Promising Young Woman to Don’t Worry Darling, that try – and mostly fail – to capture a difficult moment

The 2024 Democratic Convention: More 1964 Than 1968

Liza Featherstone Jacobin
The media kept comparing this year’s DNC to Chicago 1968. But given the party’s rejection of the Uncommitted movement, Atlantic City 1964, when Democrats refused to seat Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, is more apt.