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Dan Pfeiffer: Un-Trumping America
The GOP Doesn’t Need Trump—It’s Already Rigged the System The Daily Beast featured an excerpt from a new book by Dan Pfeiffer, detailing how the GOP has put their thumb on the scales of democracy. MORE
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Review of A Very Stable Genius
It sheds new light on how the 45th president tests the boundaries of the office while trying the patience and dignity of those who work for or with him. It is not just another Trump MORE
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Review of Jeff Vandermeer’s new book “Dead Astronauts”
The critique of corporate capitalism is clear to see, and this first act, strange and abstracted though it is, is not without precedent. Fans of weird literature are sure to find echoes of Gene Wolfe’s The MORE
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Kochland: How the Koch Brothers bought America then trashed it
Charles and his late brother David are second-generation extremists. Their father, Fred, was not only one of the founders of the John Birch Society, which famously accused President Dwight Eisenhower of being a “tool of the MORE
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Book Review: The Right’s Obsession with “Judeo-Christian” Values
As K. Healan Gaston shows in her new book, Reimagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy, Americans have long articulated their thinking about politics and religion through their comments on Judaism. Few MORE
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Comedians go into Barnes & Noble and replace the covers of Trump Jr’s new book
A New York City Barnes & Noble was the site of a prank performed by comedy group The Good Liars. The release of the greasiest Trump’s new memoir (which spends most of its ghost-written pages complaining about being a victim) MORE
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Darling Nikki has a new book about her tenure in the Trump administration
Due for release on November 12, 2019, Darling Nikki Haley new book, “With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace’ reflects on her tenure in the Trump administration. Haley served as former Ambassador MORE
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Book Review: All The President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator
In 2005, Donald Trump was caught on tape bragging that his fame allowed him to sexually assault women. In 2016, as he was running for president, that recording, the so-called Access Hollywood tape, was made public, MORE
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Book Review: THE ECONOMISTS’ HOUR: FALSE PROPHETS, FREE MARKETS, AND THE FRACTURE OF SOCIETY
The title of the book refers to a period that Appelbaum defines as being between 1969 and 2008. For him, this was a time when the policies that economists almost universally endorsed—tax breaks, austerity, deregulation, MORE
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The Far Side is coming back!
A new era of the The Far Side, the newspaper strip by Gary Larson, is coming. Fans noticed over the weekend that the strip’s official website had been updated with a new cartoon and a MORE
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Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88
Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate in literature whose best-selling work explored black identity in America — and in particular the often crushing experience of black women — through luminous, incantatory prose resembling that of no MORE