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the fact that online trolling is par for the mainstream cultural course.
Whitney Phillips • This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
I want nice people with nice-enough politics to look at me, reason for themselves that I am worthy, and feel convicted when the world does not agree. God willing they may one day extrapolate my specific case to the general rule, seeing the way oppression marginalizes others to their personal benefit.
Tressie McMillan Cottom • Thick: And Other Essays
To succeed in today's media environment, “political leaders must appear as accessible, authentic, and relatable,” she argues,
Conor Friedersdorf • The Charisma-vs.-Charm Election
Coralie Kraft • Trolls Used Her Face to Make Fake Porn. There Was Nothing She Could Do.
Chappell Roan is one of the most interesting new celebrities to study because she embodies so much of what the younger gener... See more
Keeping Up with the Gen Zs
“Trump is a creature native to our own style of government and therefore much more difficult to protect ourselves against,” the Yale political theorist Bryan Garsten wrote. “He is a demagogue, a popular leader who feeds on the hatred of elites that grows naturally in democratic soil.” A demagogue can become a tyrant, but it’s the people who put him
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