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Obsessive Culture War Is a Dead End. Just Ask Ron DeSantis.

Ben Burgis Convergence
Ron DeSantis went all in on the niche fixations of online right-wing culture warriors. In the process, his failed presidential campaign proved that the Right’s obsessive “anti-wokeness” is a political cul-de-sac.

Israel’s Vietnam—And Ours

Van Gosse The Nation
Everything that Israel is doing to the people of Gaza—especially killing civilians through intensive aerial bombardment—was prefigured during the American “ground war” in Vietnam.
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