In recent years, America’s democracy has faced countless challenges. Some seemed to materialize out of thin air, but many have been the fruit of secretive networks such as the 40-year-old Council for National Policy. Here are 10 individuals who have sown the seeds of disruption and disinformation—and who are setting their sights on the 2024 presidential election.
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Spring has sprung and with it comes primaries, which are going to start kicking into gear fairly soon. Texas, in fact, already held its contest back in March; the state will hold run-off voting on May 24 in races where no one topped 50 percent. Of these, the most notable race is between conservative Democratic incumbent Henry Cuellar and progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros in House district 28. Ohio, where erstwhile reasonable human turned Trumpy extremist J.D. Vance (who just snared Donald... Читать дальше...
It’s been thoroughly overtaken by events since, but by the time the midterm elections roll around in November, the implications of Congress’s failure to pass democratic reforms this term will be clear to all. In fact, the right’s efforts to suppress the vote have already had an impact. In Texas, for instance, 30 percent of the absentee ballots received in the state’s most populous counties were rejected ahead of the March primaries, thanks to new restrictions. In the 2020 election, by contrast... Читать дальше...
“Golightly? Fuck Golightly,” Natasha Lyonne’s Nadia Vulvokov spits, standing in a library and rifling through the g’s. Anybody who mistook her character in season one of Russian Doll—with her lost cat, her love of nightlife, and her tireless conviction that to belong to another human being was a fate far worse than death—for a millennial update on Capote’s flighty, frothy Breakfast at Tiffany’s heroine ought to interpret this as a sly correction. Nadia, who does not go lightly anywhere, is and always has been an entirely new creation... Читать дальше...
