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The Far-Right’s Love Affair With Cruelty

The Far-Right’s Love Affair With Cruelty

To the far right, cruelty is more than a means to achieving a policy goal—it is often the goal itself. Cruelty for cruelty's sake—directed against "the other," a variable collection of liberals, immigrants, and minority groups.
The Christmas Cruelty of Greg Abbott

The Christmas Cruelty of Greg Abbott

Three buses coming from Texas dropped off about 140 recent migrants—including babies and young children—near VP Harris’ residence in Washington, D.C., in historically frigid temperatures on Christmas Eve.
The Dying Phase of Over 40 Years of Reaganism

The Dying Phase of Over 40 Years of Reaganism

The question today is whether we as a nation and a people will recover from Reaganism, or if it will, as Reagan promised, destroy the American experiment of pluralistic liberal democracy.