Category: Politics

The Right Normalizes Anti-Semitism
by Charlie Sykes | Nov 1, 2022 | Politics, RacePerhaps the frog wasn’t boiled after all. Maybe it was just exhausted. How else to explain the flaccid reaction this week to American conservativism’s casual normalization of anti-Semitism? It’s been two weeks since the former president blasted out his complaint about ungrateful Jews. The implicit threat got no points for subtlety. Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO […]

Backgrounder on Barre Seid, the Billionaire Extremist who Enabled Leonard Leo to Stack the Court and Overturn Roe
by Lisa Graves | Oct 31, 2022 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsOn August 22nd of this year, the New York Times reported that a secretive Chicago industrialist named Barre Seid had transferred more than $1.6 billion into the control of Leonard Leo, to whom Donald Trump outsourced the packing of the U.S. Supreme Court. (For more on that court-packing, check out Jim Hightower’s piercing series on Leo.) That story by […]

The Wide Angle
by | Oct 16, 2022 | Current Archives, Opinion, Politics, The Wide AngleIn June, The Washington Spectator published my long-form investigation into the complicated history behind the January 6th insurrection, Paranoia on Parade. Covering nearly a century, the piece was the result of several years worth of collaborative research, looking into root causes and obscure movements that busy reporters at our daily papers understandably have little time […]

“Burn and Rave at Close of Day”: The New MAGA Military and Steve Bannon’s Hundred-Year Reich
by George Black | Sep 9, 2022 | PoliticsIn this article, the second in his two-part series for the Spectator on the far right and the military, George Black examines the emergence of a new movement of far-right MAGA veterans and the scope of their political ambitions. His earlier piece focused on the right-wing assault on the “woke military” and its potential to […]

The Fed’s Battle With Inflation: A Pyrrhic Victory? Or Will the Federal Government Join the Fight?
by Steven Pressman | Aug 31, 2022 | EconomyThe central bank of the U.S. Federal Reserve (or Fed for short) has been hiking interest rates this year to try to bring down inflation. Before addressing the economic consequences of this, a few words about central banks seems in order. Regular retail and consumer banks do their own banking at central banks—making deposits and […]
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