Caleb Brennan

Dec 17, 2024 | inthesetimes.com | Caleb Brennan

If the Richard Nixon Foundation transfers your call, a haunting song chimes through the receiver. It’s the disgraced president’s 1972 reelection song, ​“More Than Ever,” the upbeat, School of Rock-esque fanfare that was once pumped into millions of televisions 52 years ago. “More than ever we need Nixon now,” sings a choir as sturdy horns, snares and piano chords crescendo. But transmitted through a landline, the tune curdles into something more like a funeral dirge.

Dec 13, 2024 | thenation.com | Caleb Brennan

Society / When social structures corrode, as they are doing now, they trigger desperate deeds like Mangione’s, and rightist vigilantes like Penny. Ad Policy Brandishing a juvenile, chicken-scratch graph, right-wing pundit and neoconservative toady Scott Jennings offered a simple analysis during a recent CNN roundtable. “Here’s my chart: The good guys today, Daniel Penny. The bad guys, Luigi Mangione,” he proclaimed.

Jul 2, 2024 | wispolitics.com | Caleb Brennan |Kate Morton

MADISON, Wis. — Today, a breaking news report from Heartland Signal revealed recent audio of Eric Hovde criticizing the provision in the Affordable Care Act allowing people to stay on their family health plan until age 26.

Nov 1, 2023 | thenation.com | Caleb Brennan |Hanno Hauenstein |Hillel Schenker |Spencer Ackerman

Politics / Our political and cultural systems are obsessed with exploiting fears about crime. But it wasn’t always this way. Ad PolicyYou had to watch your back on the grimy cobblestone streets of Victorian Era London. Ever since the explosion of the Industrial Revolution, crime had become a constant source of anxiety.

Oct 28, 2023 | thenation.com | Adolph Reed Jr. |Caleb Brennan |Spencer Ackerman |Mara Cavallaro

Class Notes / Today’s conversation around inequality traces back to the compromises made in the late civil rights movement. Ad PolicyThis article appears in the November 13/20, 2023 issue, with the headline “The Race Trade-Off”The landmark civil rights victories of the mid-1960s—the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968—profoundly altered the character and trajectory of Black American political life.