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I’ve never heard of the song “Choosin’ Texas”, and neither have you.

Technological progress could set us free. Under capitalism, it destroys jobs instead.

Americans need structural and material change, not better storytelling

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My remarks at the 2026 Progress Summit

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Centrist arguments about who is or isn't "electable" have always been about disciplining the Democratic base rather than actually winning elections

While Prime Minister Mark Carney said he be “Elbows up” to Trump, his policy choices have essentially aligned Canada with America.

While Prime Minister Mark Carney said he be “Elbows up” to Trump, his policy choices have essentially aligned Canada with America.

Throughout the 20th century, the appeal of socialism inspired genuine intellectual ferment on the reactionary right. Today, its critique of the left is completely out of gas.

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Ben Shapiro and the metaphysics of right wing grift

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In Martin Scorsese’s documentary No Direction Home (2005), Joan Baez says of her onetime paramour Bob Dylan, “Thirty some years, whenever I go to a march, sit-in, or lie-in, or jail-in, people always ...

Bari Weiss's incompetent rebrand of CBS is just the 2000s-era reactionary "free thinker" grift adapted for the age of Donald Trump

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