Zack Beauchamp
Senior Correspondent, Vox. Host of the Worldly podcast. (((Globalist))). "Low serotonin lobster."
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The American right’s favorite strongman
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Viktor Orbán dismantled Hungary’s democracy. Conservatives love him.
The most clarifying moment from the House Judiciary impeachment hearing
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An expert witness gave an incredibly helpful explanation of why Trump’s behavior is impeachable.
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Zack Beauchamp When you see Trump's tweets about bullying states with federal funding, the one thing you can't say is that we weren't very explicitly warned 7d
Either Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine, a potentially risky drug, or he’s irresponsibly lying about it
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The president’s new announcement suggests he’s trying to distract from his policy failures — and possibly even endangering his own life.
The New York Times Surrendered to an Outrage Mob. Journalism Will Suffer For It.
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The mishandling of a controversial column by Bret Stephens sets three pernicious precedents for American journalism.
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Zack Beauchamp Over 80,000 Americans are dead. The economy is as bad as it's been since the Great Depression. The president is letting his crooked friend off and demanding a sham investigation of his predecessor. Imagine seeing all of that, and choosing to write this. 13d
Trump demands Obama be made to testify in the Senate
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In his latest tweet, Trump seems to be ordering Sen. Lindsey Graham to put Obama through a kind of show trial.
The partisan culture war over masks
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One conservative writer’s viral rant explains how a basic public health measure become another front in the culture wars.
Ahmaud Arbery and the dangers of running while black
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The threat of being killed merely for existing can shape black men’s lives.
The coronavirus killed American exceptionalism
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The pandemic has forced the US to face a brutal truth: America isn’t as exceptional as it thinks it is. Here’s why it faltered.
It’s time to take UFOs seriously. Seriously.
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Alexander Wendt is one of the most influential political scientists alive. Here’s his case for taking UFOs seriously.
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Zack Beauchamp Ask and ye shall receive: interviews Alex Wendt on UFOs 19d
The agonizing story of Tara Reade
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I started reporting on Tara Reade’s story a year ago. Here’s what I found, and where I’m stuck.
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Zack Beauchamp An extraordinary piece from , who has been working with Tara Reade for over a year, on how to think about the Biden sexual assault allegations 20d
Dropping the Democratic Facade
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Dropping the democratic facade in Europe and Eurasia
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Zack Beauchamp New report finds that Hungary has experienced the single-largest democratic decline ever recorded among comparable states 21d
Canada succeeded on coronavirus where America failed. Why?
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Canada beat the US on coronavirus because its political system works.
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Zack Beauchamp I got so many harsh quotes like these from Canadian public health experts. The highlighted one really sticks with me 23d
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Zack Beauchamp Why is the Canadian infection rate half of America’s? Because its political system actually works. 23d
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Zack Beauchamp "The biggest public health threat to Canada right now is importing cases from the United States” is a truly remarkable statement 23d
What the Sanders campaign’s defenders get wrong — and right
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Some parts of the left aren’t reckoning with what really happened. Others are saying some pretty revealing things.
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Zack Beauchamp A reply to my critics on the Sanders campaign and left electoral strategy 26d
Megaphone Player
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Zack Beauchamp Hello, this week's Worldly is about UFOs — the new Pentagon videos and how they fit into the history, theory, and existential questions raised by the notion that we might not be alone 27d
Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Mortality in U.S. Cities during the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919
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Zack Beauchamp New paper from one of America's most eminent economists has a pretty disturbing finding 29d
Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week
Ed Pilkington - the Guardian 33d 80 tweets
Mark Grenon wrote to Trump saying chlorine dioxide ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’ days before the president promoted disinfectant as treatment
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Zack Beauchamp It seems possible that Trump's bonkers bleach comments were quite literally the result of a huckster who sells bleach duping the President of the United States 33d
How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
Jane Mayer - The New Yorker 45d 52 tweets
The Senate Majority Leader’s refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.
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Zack Beauchamp Just finished reading 's fascinating Mitch McConnell profile. This passage is particularly striking 35d
A disturbing new study suggests Sean Hannity helped spread the coronavirus
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Sophisticated new research links Hannity’s coronavirus misinformation to "a greater number of Covid-19 cases and deaths."
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Zack Beauchamp A really important, brilliantly designed new paper finds evidence that Fox News’ coronavirus misinformation quite literally got people killed 35d
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Zack Beauchamp Hard to overemphasize how striking this study is. It quantifies precisely how many lives appear to have been lost due to Sean Hannity's programming choices 35d
The coronavirus fight demands unity. But Republicans just want to own the libs.
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The GOP was built to fail on coronavirus.
Hungary’s "coronavirus coup," explained
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What’s happened in Hungary over the past few weeks is a case study of how the pandemic threatens democracy. It’s also a warning for the US.
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Zack Beauchamp People do not understand what’s happening in Hungary. The attack on democracy there is even more diabolical than you think. 42d