How Bad Could BA.2.86 Get?

How Bad Could BA.2.86 Get?

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When Both Parties Try to Out-Macho Each Other

The MAGA movement has fully embraced masculinism, which The Atlantic’s staff writer Helen Lewis defines in her cover story this month as “a movement to fight back against the advances of feminism and reassert the primacy of men.” Democrats have a more complicated relationship wit ...  Show more

Is the GOP Starting to Defy Trump?

For most of his second term, Donald Trump has successfully conveyed the message that defiance is not an option. Republicans who ignored that message generally wound up out of office, so they largely toed the line. Lately, though, that seems to be changing. Republicans recently pu ...  Show more

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