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Notes 2: New York heralds the New Realism

Kathy O’Connor on Mamdani’s victory. It is an occupational hazard for anyone interested in American politics to become overwhelmed by rhetoric. The national conversation is so often conducted in italics and capital letters—TREASON, LOW-IQ, DEEP STATE—that the essential banality of governance, the stuff that determines whether your rent goes up or your subway runs on […]

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Notes on the Structural Failure of Young America’s Scaffolding, and the New Realist Fightback

American Youth bite back. By Kathy O’Connor It’s difficult to say, exactly, when the future began to feel less like an aspiration and more like a poorly executed eviction notice. One felt compelled to conclude, watching the seemingly endless, granular erosion of American civil liberties—the systematic dismantling of protections for reproductive autonomy, the punitive erasure […]