In yet another example of right-wingers calling for violence, a Fox News anchor this week suggested homeless people with mental illnesses should be killed. And while the anchor, Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade, has already apologized, a closer look at his history makes clear this is just one of his many past incendiary—and often […]
In March, the fictional TV miniseries Adolescence became a surprise global sensation. Its story centers on the Millers, a working-class family of four in England whose world is upended when 13-year-old Jamie Miller—a bright, soft-spoken schoolboy—is arrested for murder. Jamie is accused of fatally stabbing a female classmate, Katie, apparently after being radicalized online. Through […]
A week that began with shocking revelations about the president and the pedophile was quickly and shockingly overtaken by a brutal murder, followed by the dangerous smearing of Democrats and the left.
Taylor Lorenz is a technology journalist, the host of the Power User podcast, and the author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet. She joined Current Affairs’ Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson and Digital Editor John Ross (who was formerly a producer for the David Pakman Show) to discuss her recent bombshell article for Wired: an investigation into Chorus, Good Influence, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the dark money network secretly funding Democratic influencers.