Zohran Mamdani has gained a lot from ‘playing ball’ with the Black political establishment in New York. But if he wants to achieve his agenda in the long-term, he must turn to the Black socialist insurgents.
Voter fraud. Immigration fraud. Financial fraud. Turn on any screen, and the conservative obsession with "fraud" is inescapable. Now in syndication, Sam Steen’s analysis exposes how "fraud" has become the modern reincarnation of the racist "Welfare Queen" myth spawned by Reagan. Steen breaks down how the right uses this catchall boogeyman to manufacture consent for militant ICE raids, gut the social safety net, and push voter suppression like the SAVE Act. The real fraud is neither the ballot box nor the border, but the narrative itself.
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s newly released Muskism traces the biography and ideology of the Elon Musk, the man currently reshaping the digital world. In his review, Nik M. traces the inculcation of “fortress” and racialist ideas in Musk’s upbringing in apartheid South Africa, the new model of tech domination dependent on exploitation of state power, and, finally, the “woke mind virus” that terrifies Musk, explains his aggression, and may just be the ghost in the machine necessary to stop him.