Hurricane Melissa has led to at least 50 deaths across the Caribbean as of Friday afternoon. It has now weakened into a post-tropical cyclone, veering eastward away from the Americas. In its wake, the storm carved a massive swath of destruction across Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba as it lashed the region with howling winds and […]

On Thursday night, the president of the Heritage Foundation — the MAGA right’s leading think tank — welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition. You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not. The Nazi in question here, podcaster Nick Fuentes, has described Adolf Hitler as “really fucking cool” and said […]

To many progressives, ICE — Immigration and Customs Enforcement — is synonymous with President Donald Trump’s brutal and cruel immigration regime. But to hardliners in the Trump administration bent on carrying out mass deportation, ICE has actually been something of a disappointment.  So they’re increasingly turning to another agency that they view as willing to […]

On Saturday, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — also known as food stamps — will run out for more than 40 million Americans. Those millions of Americans are collateral damage from what is thus far the second-longest government shutdown in US history.  But even as the looming deadline has underscored the very real impact […]

Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending. While there are certainly worse problems (e.g. white nationalism in […]