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The Rise of Nick Fuentes Should Horrify Us All
Current Affairs • Oct 8, 2025

The Rise of Nick Fuentes Should Horrify Us All

How did Adolf Hitler manage to successfully destroy German democracy? In his writings and speeches, Hitler comes across as deranged, paranoid, ignorant, buffoonish. And yet he successfully came to power through (mostly) democratic means, using his position to unleash the most systematic mass murder campaign in world history, and ultimately bringing ruin on his country and much of the rest of the continent. How could such a calamity happen? How did he convince people to support him? And how can we ensure that no such scenario ever plays out again?

ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in Africa’s Only Absolute Monarchy
Mother Jones • Oct 8, 2025

ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in Africa’s Only Absolute Monarchy

Eswatini, the landlocked nation formerly known as Swaziland, is Africa’s last remaining absolute monarchy. It is the kind of place where King Mswati III—who took the throne as an 18-year-old four decades ago—can warn in a speech, as he did in 2023, that nobody should “complain if mercenaries kill” political activists. When one of the […]

One Woman’s Quest to Reclaim the Ugly History of Black Maternal Health
Mother Jones • Oct 8, 2025

One Woman’s Quest to Reclaim the Ugly History of Black Maternal Health

A decade or so ago, to help pay the bills, the artist-activist Michelle Browder started giving human-rights tours of Montgomery, Alabama, the city where her family has deep roots. Riding around in a red-and-white trolley, she would delve into the uncomfortable historical truths that many people she encountered either didn’t know about or preferred to […]

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