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3 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | Ava Kofman
We’re conducting a health check on American democracy. In a new section that we’re calling “How Bad Is It?” we’ll be taking stock of the latest threats to civic life, with context from our experts—starting with Ronan Farrow on Elon Musk’s alleged drug use. But, first, how the blogger Curtis Yarvin became one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers.
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3 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | Ava Kofman
In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat, an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading “An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.” Written with the sneering disaffection of an ex-believer, the hundred-and-twenty-thousand-word letter argued that egalitarianism, far from improving the world, was actually responsible for most of its ills.
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3 weeks ago | 
rsn.org | Ava Kofman
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
msn.com | Ava Kofman
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Ava Kofman |Doug Bock Clark |Andy Kroll |Audrey Dutton
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Oil tycoons Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks have pushed the Texas statehouse to the far right by funding relentless primary campaigns against other Republicans. The Texas statehouse is advancing policies that threaten the separation between church and state. Dunn is now linked to think tanks that are jockeying to influence a second Trump administration.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Ava Kofman
Last December, Sid Miller, the Texas commissioner of agriculture, posted a photo of himself brandishing a double-barrel shotgun on X and invited his followers to join him on a "RINO hunt." Miller had taken to stumping in the March primary election against incumbents he deemed to be Republicans in Name Only. Not long after that, he received a text message from one of his targets, a state representative named Glenn Rogers. "You are a bought and paid for, pathetic narcissist," it began.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Ava Kofman
A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start. Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide. Last December, Sid Miller, the Texas commissioner of …
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Ava Kofman |Lisa Song |Abrahm Lustgarten |Justin Elliott
Polluters are turning neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones” where residents breathe in carcinogens. The EPA allows it. We mapped the hot spots. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Environmental Protection Agency will drastically reduce cancerous air pollution from chemical plants.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Ava Kofman
In the summer of 2017, eleven FBI agents searched a small house in a run-down neighborhood in Augusta, Georgia, where a twenty-five-year-old NSA contractor named Reality Winner lived alone with a cat and a foster dog, neither of whom liked men.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
heysocal.com | Ava Kofman
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Easy money and a lack of regulation have transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into a $22 billion industry rife with fraud, abuse and exploitation. The year 2023 was a banner one for hospice reform.
