The lights dimmed and the deafening sound of 80,000 people cheering enveloped concertgoers as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on a massive screen behind the stage. In a masterful speech, albeit one delivered in halting English, Modi detailed the achievements of his two-year-old administration. Throughout, of course, were plugs for his Android app and […]

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In Chicago I filed onto my Southwest flight, and was just about ready to throw my coat upon an unoccupied middle seat when I saw the man by the window in the T-shirt reading, “If guns kill people, then spoons make people fat,” and backed away. My trip to Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump’s inauguration […]

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On October 15, 1969, more than two million people in dozens of cities across the United States participated in a day of marches, vigils, and teach-ins against the Vietnam War. The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was the largest nationwide protest in U.S. history at the time, and it signaled to President Nixon […]

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Everyone has been asking me how Donald Trump can possibly thrive politically once his voters discover that what he said on the campaign trail was categorical bullshit. I respond by pointing out that people only know what they know, and what they know about Trump will be determined by a campaign of White House disinformation […]

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What does it mean to be a feminist in the age of Trump? Discussions around this question have been percolating since Donald Trump won enough electoral votes to defeat the only woman to ever run as major-party candidate for the presidency of the United States. But they came into sharp focus on January 21, when […]

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