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Auntie Fa?

Media Scrambles to Find Absolute Dumbest Way to Smear Mamdani as Finish Line Approaches
“What do you call someone from Japan?” “ Japanese .” “What do you call someone from England?” “ English .” “What do you call someone from India?” “ Auntie or Uncle .” I doubled over laughing as my…
Sajida Jalalzai
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'Clever Girl' Explains Why Dinosaurs are Queer and Feminist — and Jurassic Park is a Toolkit for the Apocalypse

Everything happens so much these days, and so very much of it is very bad indeed. In the last few weeks alone, we’ve had another school shooting , the passing of a social justice icon , the VP’s…
Megan Goodwin
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Peter Beinart's 'Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza' Expertly Dismantles Pro-Israel Propaganda — But Does it Adequately Reckon with the Genocide?

The ambitious intentions of Peter Beinart’s new book are evident from the title: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. Responding to the current moment, Beinart has written nothing…
Brant Rosen
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The Right Memes While Millions Face Food Insecurity

Why feed kids when you can spread racist content about the "EBT Community" rioting
Last Friday, October 24, the Department of Agriculture announced that there would be no emergency plan to provide for the 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps and, due to the government…
Carmen Celestini
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Religion Dispatches

Islamophobia Is Back on the Menu

With Mamdani leading NYC mayoral race, opponents of both parties reach for anti-Muslim tactics
In a few days, Zohran Mamdani is poised to become the first South Asian Muslim mayor of New York. Helped by ranked choice voting and a platform laser-focused on affordability, Mamdani’s unlikely…
Ambereen Dadabhoy
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image of a woman declares that Mamdani would decriminalize drunk driving

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism

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Religion Dispatches
Evan Derkacz Executive Editor of Religion Dispatches since its founding in 2008, Evan was previously an editor for AlterNet and Tikkun magazine. Megan Goodwin Senior Editor Megan Goodwin specifically…
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Explainers

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PRA is known for our more than 40 years of deep research and analysis on the U.S. and global Far Right. A key component of that deep research is distilling the core ideological traits, political…
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Swords into Plowshares

Jalane Schmidt on Memory, Public Art, and Kara Walker’s “Unmanned Drone”
L os Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick opened MONUMENTS last week, an exhibit that reflects on the removal and recontextualization of decommissioned monuments. Two of the installations…
Megan Goodwin
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Kara Walker's "Unmanned Drone"
Religion Dispatches

JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins

On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former…
Joel Swanson
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