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His administration is now openly advancing a worldview built by white nationalists in the 2010s.
His administration is now openly advancing a worldview built by white nationalists in the 2010s.
A Heritage insider alleging “openly misogynistic and racist” conduct shines a light on the right’s inner workings.
Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.
A conservative explains what Kirk meant to the MAGA movement — and how it’s reacting to his death.
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The right’s new assault on free speech isn’t cancel culture. It’s worse.
Is the best way to fight Trump “normal” politics — or something else?
A roundtable discussion among leading MAGA intellectuals suggests they might be suffering from success.
Liberalism has a serious pipeline problem.
Bronze Age Pervert is an influential voice on the extreme right. Now he’s trying to change the administration’s economic approach.
Lawrence Dennis predicted America would fall to fascism in the 1930s. His errors have much to teach us today.
And why he’ll get away with it.
How a 1965 prediction of impending Canadian doom sheds light on Trump’s talk of the 51st state.
What he has instead is the promise of chaos.
For Trump’s ideological allies, it’s always 2020.
How a Catholic theocrat started speaking for Trump’s State Department.
The left’s attachment to thinking of politics in “material” terms is causing it to misread the moment.
In 2015, right-wing intellectual Charles Murray wrote a book laying the groundwork for DOGE’s reign of terror.
A glimpse into the bitter infighting consuming MAGA’s intellectual ranks.
White House policy is being hatched in elite conservative bubbles.
An Oval Office meeting on Monday revealed how Trump would like to rule — and why he might not be able to.
After the tariffs, they’re worried they made a MAGA mistake.
The right’s muddled response to Trump’s student deportations expose its paper-thin commitment to the principle.
The chat logs revealed an administration that wants to both dominate the world and withdraw from it.
The MAGA movement loves Israel — but is increasingly hostile to Jews.
The online right loves talking about “IQ.” Guess why.
Ed Martin went from a little-known conservative activist to US Attorney for DC — all because of Stop the Steal.
Russ Vought, Trump’s OMB director, wrote an essay in 2022 that reads like a blueprint for what was to come.
Philosopher Richard Rorty predicted that someone like Trump might bring back public cruelty.
Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.
The order to shut off federal grants reveals a vision of the presidency at odds with basic democratic principles.
The executive orders expose the strategy: claim to be defending democracy as you dismantle it.
The new president’s designs on Canada and Greenland fit into a very old American tradition.
What the author of Vox’s newsletter on conservatism thinks will happen — and why.
A tale of two killings.
When it comes to politics, Elon Musk’s ideas are utterly, revealingly conventional.
What one of the right’s greatest thinkers would make of Trumponomics.
The ominous implication of an outburst that ties two strains of right-wing thought together.
Robinson isn’t the only nonwhite bigot to get famous of late. How should we understand their growing prominence?
Trump says nasty things about immigrants all the time. But these ones have disturbingly specific Nazi parallels.
Harvey Mansfield’s book on “manliness” prefigured JD Vance’s musings about “childless cat ladies” by nearly two decades.
A new book shows how people are getting the right’s class appeal all wrong.
An radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans.
JD Vance and like-minded conservatives are theorizing a kind of “neopatriarchy.”
The dark worldview of Trump’s choice for vice president, explained.