The Right

Brothers in race-baiting: Donald Trump and Elon Musk attend a SpaceX launch in 2024.

The New Right’s Toxic Addiction to Racial Conflict The New Right’s Toxic Addiction to Racial Conflict

A former fellow with the Claremont Institute explains how white nationalist dogma sets the terms of political belonging on the MAGA right.

Aug 14, 2026 / Pedro Gonzalez

JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump in the Oval Office on April 23, 2026.

Trump’s Iran Disaster Is Making All His Cronies Look Like Fools Trump’s Iran Disaster Is Making All His Cronies Look Like Fools

Two foreign-policy camps are claiming Trump for themselves, while the Middle East fiasco humiliates every single one of them.

Aug 12, 2026 / Column / David Klion

Still from “The Odyssey.”

Do Epics Need Heroes? Do Epics Need Heroes?

In recent years, the online right has contested adaptations of epic in order to make an argument about masculinity. The Odyssey is their latest target.

Aug 8, 2026 / Orlando Reade

Children at a Head Start program at the Kedren Community Health Center in Los Angeles.

Trump’s Deregulation of Head Start Would Lead to Bigger Class Sizes, Lower Quality Trump’s Deregulation of Head Start Would Lead to Bigger Class Sizes, Lower Quality

The administration has now made public a proposed rule to eliminate critical standards for services in the free preschool program.

Aug 7, 2026 / Bryce Covert

People enter before US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers opening remarks during the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism at the State Department on July 16, 2026, in Washington, DC.

The Right-Wing Terrorism Miller and Rubio Conveniently Neglected to Mention at Their DC Summit The Right-Wing Terrorism Miller and Rubio Conveniently Neglected to Mention at Their DC Summit

At their July event on “The Resurgence of Political Terrorism,” the secretary of state and the White House deputy chief of staff selectively presented information to malign the le...

Aug 7, 2026 / Sasha Abramsky

President Donald Trump attends the NATO summit on July 8, 2026, in Ankara, Turkey, remarking that communism has “proven to be a disaster” for “thousands of years.”

America’s Third Red Scare America’s Third Red Scare

Trump and the revival of “red-hunting” demagoguery.

Aug 6, 2026 / Pietro A. Shakarian

People wait in hopes of seeing Stephen Colbert outside the Ed Sullivan Theater after the taping of the final episode of The Late Show in New York, on May 21, 2026.

Our Court Jesters Are Disappearing Just When We Need Them Most Our Court Jesters Are Disappearing Just When We Need Them Most

In this authoritarian moment, we need defiant comedy more than ever.

Aug 3, 2026 / Kali Holloway

Gen. Francisco Franco with his handpicked successor, Prince Juan Carlos of Spain, in 1975.

How Franco Ruled Spain How Franco Ruled Spain

Two new books examine these dark decades in Spanish history.

Jul 30, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín

The ultra-traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X kept poking the bear.

What Pope Leo Can Teach Liberals About Power What Pope Leo Can Teach Liberals About Power

The pontiff just excommunicated a reactionary splinter group committed to undermining the church. Democratic leaders could learn something.

Jul 29, 2026 / Felipe de la Hoz

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage attends the inaugural Conservative Political Action Conference Great Britain in London on July 17, 2026.

Dispatches From the First Great British CPAC Dispatches From the First Great British CPAC

Through conferences, media ventures, and fat public-affairs contracts, the MAGA industrial complex has spent 10 years trying to buy British politics.

Jul 27, 2026 / Stella Tsantekidou

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