Kali Holloway

New York

Columnist for The Nation, MSNBC and The Daily Beast. She/Her "Black power civil rights type...communist" — Gavin McInnes

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Articles

The Real Reason Those White South Africans Are Here

1 month ago | thenation.com | Kali Holloway

Politics / May 16, 2025 The Real Reason Those White South Africans Are HereHint: It’s not because they’re actually being persecuted. Ad Policy Afrikaners from South Africa arrive, Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP) To be clear, white South Africans—and this really cannot be reiterated enough—are not being persecuted.
The Right Is Trying to Make the N-Word OK Again

1 month ago | thenation.com | Kali Holloway

Society / May 14, 2025 The Right Is Trying to Make the N-Word OK AgainConservatives don’t just want white dominance. They want to be able to abuse Black people in the worst ways possible—and get rewarded for it. Ad Policy Shiloh Hendrix, who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars after being filmed racially abusing a 5-year-old Black child.
Opinion | Why the Met Gala's celebration of Black dandyism matters for this moment

1 month ago | msnbc.com | Kali Holloway

The theme for this year’s Met Gala, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” was selected and announced weeks before the 2024 election that returned Donald Trump to the presidency. And yet, perhaps no motif could speak more sharply to MAGA’s politics of grievance and erasure. The night is inspired by the figure of the Black dandy, whose sartorial influence traces all the way back to the early 19th century.
Why It Matters That Harvard Said No

2 months ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Black |Kali Holloway |Anthony Fisher |Lauren Lewis

Harvard said no. No to government minders, no to intellectual dishonesty, no to conservative DEI. In a forceful letter of rebuke to the Trump administration’s threat to withhold federal money from the university if it does not acquiesce to a series of “ham-handed” demands—including government audits to monitor “ideological capture”—Harvard president Alan M. Garber basically told the government to f--k all the way off. He said it in a more Harvard way, but that was the message.
The Democrats’ Lost Millions

2 months ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Kali Holloway

Feature / The people who really decided the 2024 election are the ones who didn’t vote at all—and they could hold the key to a Democratic comeback. This article appears in the May 2025 issue, with the headline “The Lost Millions.”If Democrats are serious about learning from Kamala Harris’s defeat, they should start by rejecting every election postmortem blaming “wokeness” for her loss.
The Democrats’ Lost Millions

2 months ago | thenation.com | Kali Holloway

Feature / April 8, 2025 The Democrats’ Lost MillionsThe people who really decided the 2024 election are the ones who didn’t vote at all—and they could hold the key to a Democratic comeback. Edit Illustration by Adrià Fruitós. This article appears in the May 2025 issue, with the headline “The Lost Millions.” If Democrats are serious about learning from Kamala Harris’s defeat, they should start by rejecting every election postmortem blaming “wokeness” for her loss.
Here's What Musk And DOGE Really Want

2 months ago | progressivehub.net | Kali Holloway

Dismantling the civil service isn’t just a tactic. It’s a necessity for their efforts to entrench white racial and economic supremacy. By Kali Holloway, The NationThe civil service is, and has long been, disproportionately Black. Almost 20 percent of federal workers are African American, compared to just of private-sector workers and 13 percent of Americans overall. A 2011 study found that Black Americans were 30 percent more likely than any other group of Americans to work in public service.
Why Musk and Trump Really Want to Gut the Government

2 months ago | thenation.com | Kali Holloway

Politics / April 1, 2025 Why Musk and Trump Really Want to Gut the Government Why Musk and Trump Really Want to Gut the GovernmentDismantling the civil service isn’t just a tactic. It’s a necessity for their efforts to entrench white racial and economic supremacy. Ad Policy Elon Musk wields a chainsaw as he leaves the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 20, 2025.
Why Musk and Trump Really Want to Gut the Government

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Kali Holloway

3 hours agoDemocrats are facing their worst nightmare: Elon Musk, one of the smartest people on the planet, is revealing their dirty tricks. No wonder they are out to destroy him and his companies. Musk spoke recently at a town hall in Wisconsin, supporting a Republican candidate for that state’s Supreme Court …
Trump’s Administration May Be Brainless, But the ‘Thought Police’ Is Coming

Mar 29, 2025 | thedailybeast.com | David Rothkopf |Michael Black |Kali Holloway |Harry Siegel

Suppose a dangerous lunatic were elected President of the United States. I know it’s a stretch. But bear with me. Eager that he hold his position so that they could retain the power they derive by association, advisors to this madman, this Mad King, would undoubtedly seek to find a way to manage their chief executive’s diminished capacity—much as they might have done should the president have become too old or enfeebled to perform effectively in office. (What?