Graham Platner, a candidate in the Democratic senate primary in Maine, has been making headlines for a couple of weeks over his old Reddit posts containing racist and sexist remarks (like blaming women for their sexual assault and downplaying sexual assault in the military).
Annika Brockschmidt
Annika Brockschmidt is a freelance journalist, author, and podcast-producer who currently writes for the Tagesspiegel, ZEIT Online and elsewhere. Her second non-fiction book America’s Holy Warriors: How the Religious Right endangers Democracy was published in German in October 2021 and was an immediate bestseller. She co-hosts the podcast “Kreuz und Flagge” (“Cross and Flag”) with visiting professor at Georgetown University, Thomas Zimmer, which explores the history of the Religious Right.
