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6 天之前 · During his first administration, Trump focused on the border and largely ignored interior enforcement. He successfully othered migrants by evoking imagery of invading marauders, aided by mainstream media that indelibly etched images and perceptions of desperate, criminal, and ragged migrants—obscuring their humanity and untethered to reality.

2024年12月5日 · Browse our essays, reviews, and interviews on politics. This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work.

The Republican National Convention took place this week in Milwaukee, where Ohio Senator J. D. Vance was named Donald Trump’s running mate, a long-standing call for a federal abortion ban was dropped from the party’s platform, and Teamsters president Sean O’Brien spoke—the first time the head of the prominent union has addressed the RNC.

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2024年12月18日 · As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, been haunted by what hasn’t: Israel’s ongoing onslaught on Gaza, an abortion landscape decimated by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the steady forward march of corporate-owned AI.

A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975. Registered 501(c)(3) organization.

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