Zack Beauchamp
Senior Correspondent, Vox. Host of the Worldly podcast. (((Globalist))). "Low serotonin lobster."
Last synced from Twitter 504d ago
The right-wing populist wave is a threat to the climate
The Amazon rainforest fires reveal a lot about this political movement.
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The Amazon fires make it obvious: far-right radicalism threatens not only democracy, but the planet
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Trump and the fragile belonging of American Jews
The president’s spree of anti-Semitic comments reveals why Jews can’t feel truly safe in his America.
1619 and the cult of American innocence
What the conservative critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project miss.
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The conservative attacks on the 1619 Project say a lot about conservatism — none of it flattering
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Marianne Williamson isn’t funny. She’s scary.
Williamson’s views on depression and illness are dangerous. The media is complicit in spreading them.
Marianne Williamson isn’t funny. She’s scary.
Williamson’s views on depression and illness are dangerous. The media is complicit in spreading them.
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Here's why I'm so frustrated with the praise for Marianne Williamson, sometimes from people I respect: She says incredibly irresponsible stuff on what is, for me personally, a life-and-death issue vox.com/policy-and-pol… pic.twitter.com/MzNXeARoRZ
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3 winners and 4 losers from the first night of the July Democratic debates
Elizabeth Warren and John Delaney were among the winners of the first night of the July Democratic debates, which focused mainly on health care.
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Here’s why I thought CNN was one of the night’s big losers vox.com/2019/7/30/2074… pic.twitter.com/UFJdfphimL
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5 losers and 0 winners from Robert Mueller’s testimony to the House of Representatives
Yes, it really was that bad.
Amy Wax, "national conservatism," and the dark dream of a whiter America
What the controversial Penn law professor really said about immigration — and why it matters.
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My response to @yhazony, featuring a number of new quotes from Wax’s research and conference speech
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Polishing the Nationalist Brand in the Trump Era
Conservative thinkers are trying to bring intellectual coherence to the Trumpian moment under the banner of nationalism. But can it be cleansed of its darker currents?
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Oh, and I wasn't the only journalist in attendance to report the comments that way. @jennyschuessler at the Times (nytimes.com/2019/07/19/art…) and @RosieGray at Buzzfeed (buzzfeednews.com/article/rosieg…) heard the same thing from Wax pic.twitter.com/Gk4kEL6FHX
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There’s A New Movement Trying To Create An Intellectual Strain Of Trumpism. It Just Doesn’t Know What Exactly That Means.
The National Conservatism Conference sought to define a nationalism apart from President Trump, but it didn't lay out a specific agenda.
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Zack Beauchamp
Oh, and I wasn't the only journalist in attendance to report the comments that way. @jennyschuessler at the Times (nytimes.com/2019/07/19/art…) and @RosieGray at Buzzfeed (buzzfeednews.com/article/rosieg…) heard the same thing from Wax pic.twitter.com/Gk4kEL6FHX
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"Send her back" is where racism and authoritarianism meet
This viciousness isn’t an accident. It’s what Trumpism is really about.
Milo Yiannopoulos’s collapse shows that no-platforming can work
The former conservative media star is broke, saddled with as much as $4 million in debt. There’s a reason for that.
Trump and the dead end of conservative nationalism
A conference on "national conservatism" barely mentioned Trump — but gave voice to Trumpism.
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I went to the National Conservatism conference. What I learned is that the conservative nationalist project is doomed.
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Israeli minister says US Jews marrying non-Jews is "like a second Holocaust"
The incredibly insulting comment, and what it says about relations between American Jews and Israel, explained.
The assault on conservative journalist Andy Ngo, explained
An unjustifiable attack — and a subsequent controversy spotlighting the militant left-wing group antifa.
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An attempt to cut through the fog of the Andy Ngo situation — and figure out what’s really going on in this conversation
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The Supreme Court’s gerrymandering decision reveals a profound threat to democracy
It’s not just Trump — it’s the Republican party as a whole.
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Myopic focus on Trump obscures the bigger threat to American democracy — the institutional decay of the GOP
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, 2020 Democratic candidate, explained
How Gabbard went from rising star to controversial figure.
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Everyone celebrating Gabbard's anti-war comments last night needs to understand this — she is not a real anti-war candidate. She is a self-described "hawk" on terrorism who wants to ally even more closely with brutal regimes vox.com/policy-and-pol… pic.twitter.com/UmLnVPfc77
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A photo of a dead father and daughter shows the true nature of Trump’s immigration policy
This is what nativism is.