McKay Coppins
Staff writer, . Author of THE WILDERNESS. “Sort of handsome” - Donald J. Trump.
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Paul Ryan Says, “I Don’t Have a Racist Bone in My Body.” Why Does Every Famous Person Accused of Racism Say That?
b-boy bouiebaisse - Slate Magazine 194d 4 tweets
On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan took to the O’Reilly Factor to tell the world he isn’t a racist. “She does not believe that I have these views,” he said,...
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An Epidemic of Disbelief
The Atlantic 3d 24 tweets
What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them
How the Epstein Case Explains the Rise of Conspiracy Theorists
McKay Coppins - The Atlantic 6d 9 tweets
Nightmarish allegations against the well-connected financier show why so many Americans let their imagination run wild when it comes to elite corruption.
McKay Coppins The nightmarish allegations against Jeffrey Epstein show why so many Americans let their imaginations run wild when it comes to elite corruption. My latest, on the conspiracy theorists taking a victory lap as new details emerge 6d
McKay Coppins David Seaman, a leading proponent of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory: 6d
McKay Coppins “I think I’ve been unnecessarily maligned,” Mike Cernovich told me. “This shows I’m doing real things, man.” 6d
The DNC Army That Could Soon Descend on Swing States
Elaine Godfrey - The Atlantic 6d 1 tweets
To avoid repeating the errors of 2016, the party is training young people of color to be campaign organizers for the eventual Democratic nominee.
The Jeffrey Epstein Case Is Like Nothing I’ve Seen Before
The Atlantic 9d 13 tweets
Great wealth insulates people from consequences, but not always, absolutely, or forever.
McKay Coppins "Epstein will have the best criminal defense money can buy, again. But this time, that will probably not be enough to save him." 9d
Meet the Mormon YouTube Influencers Shaping Teen Minds
The Daily Beast 10d 2 tweets
A new generation of LDS-affiliated influencers have taken the social media world by storm, racking up millions of followers and views with their modesty-first raison d'être.
McKay Coppins (the piece is actually interesting/harmless, i'm just amused by the headline—look out, the youtube mormons are coming for your teens!) 10d
The Guilty Pleasures of Mansion Porn
The Atlantic 11d 18 tweets
Each week, The Wall Street Journal offers its readers the choice between envy and schadenfreude.
MIRIAM ADELSON: A time of miracles
Las Vegas Review-Journal 10d 2 tweets
Cherishing, promoting and safeguarding the U.S.-Israeli alliance is a personal matter for my husband Sheldon and me.
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McKay Coppins "Would it be too much to pray for a day when the Bible gets a 'Book of Trump,' much like it has a 'Book of Esther' celebrating the deliverance of the Jews from ancient Persia?" Miriam Adelson writes an op-ed in the paper she and her husband own 10d
Independence Day in a Divided America
Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic 14d 4 tweets
Much more so than in 1776, there is a widely held belief that all humans are created equal.
McKay Coppins “The principles of the declaration are still there to unite us, even amid the persistent divisions that define this moment. Much more so than in 1776, there is a widely held belief that all humans are created equal.” 14d
An Astonishing Government Report on Conditions at the Border
The Atlantic 15d 2 tweets
Federal investigators detailed dangerous overcrowding and long detention times at Border Patrol facilities in Texas.
What a Pediatrician Saw Inside a Border Patrol Warehouse
The Atlantic 15d 52 tweets
Dolly Lucio Sevier evaluated dozens of sick children at a facility in South Texas. She found evidence of infection, malnutrition, and psychological trauma.
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McKay Coppins The pediatrician Dolly Lucio Sevier found evidence of infection, malnutrition, and psychological trauma among the sick children she examined at a Border Patrol facility in South Texas, reports 15d
A Crime by Any Name
The Atlantic 15d 30 tweets
The Trump administration’s commitment to deterring immigration through cruelty has made horrifying conditions in detention facilities inevitable.
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McKay Coppins "This is, perhaps, the most daunting element of this entire conversation. If these facilities even vaguely resemble concentration camps, then American society has failed in ways many Americans do not want to contemplate." 15d
‘Nothing Prepares You for the Inhumanity of It’
Elaine Godfrey - The Atlantic 15d 5 tweets
At a visit to Border Patrol facilities this week, the freshman congresswoman Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania met weeping women and exchanged notes with detained children.
McKay Coppins 15d
Hickenlooper campaign in shambles
POLITICO 16d 5 tweets
Senior staffers asked the former Colorado governor to drop out of the presidential race and run for Senate.
McKay Coppins The intervention described here actually suggests Hickenlooper had some pretty sound political minds on his team (before he fired them all) 16d
How Women Remade American Government
Elaine Godfrey, Russell Berman - The Atlantic 16d 2 tweets
Female lawmakers needed a critical mass in Congress before they could begin chipping away at the inequalities baked into the nation’s laws.
McKay Coppins It took a critical mass of women elected to the House and Senate to begin the long process of chipping away at gender inequities baked into America's laws, and write 16d
Actually, Conversations Are Bad
McKay Coppins - The Atlantic 16d 12 tweets
Listen closely and you’ll hear many 2020 candidates offer the same dodge to different issues.
McKay Coppins (Shout-out to my fellow conversationalists who have written on this: , , , and ) 16d
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McKay Coppins We need to have a conversation in this country about soul-deadening political clichés. My look at the catch-all cop-out of the 2020 campaign season 16d
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McKay Coppins The pattern is familiar... 16d
I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
YouTube 16d 1 tweets
The Jackson 5 preform I Want You Back on their "Goin Back To Indiana" TV special in 1971. HQ sound
McKay Coppins 16d
Imagining Post-Trump Nationalism
Emma Green - The Atlantic 18d 11 tweets
The small conservative magazine First Things aims to reclaim what has become a dirty word in the Trump era.
McKay Coppins Don't miss this story on the writers/thinkers trying to articulate a post-Trump American nationalism—a project that could define U.S. conservatism for a generation 16d
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McKay Coppins "It won a personal note of appreciation from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who sent a message to the author, Sohrab Ahmari, congratulating him on the article." 16d
Democrats Need to Talk About Their Faith
The Atlantic 18d 11 tweets
America is still an overwhelmingly religious country. Candidates shouldn’t be afraid to reflect that.
McKay Coppins Senator argues in that his fellow Democrats should be talking more about their faith. 17d
‘Mormon’ No More: Faithful Reflect on Church’s Move to Scrap a Moniker
Nytimes.com 17d 2 tweets
For the Latter-day Saints faithful, a shift away from a longtime name has meant lighthearted screw-ups, logistical complications and reflections on identity.
McKay Coppins ‘Mormon’ No More: Faithful Reflect on Church’s Move to Scrap a Moniker 17d