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US politics
fromAdvocate.com
5 days ago

Who was Charlie Kirk, the far-right activist killed Wednesday?

Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA at 18 and became a powerful, polarizing conservative youth leader who shifted from fiscal issues to culture-war advocacy.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

From Washington to Westminster, the populist right needs to erase history to succeed. It's up to us to resist | Kojo Koram

Contemporary conservatives seek to reverse historical progress and redefine democracy by targeting cultural institutions and civil-rights programs to justify rolling back rights.
Marketing
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Businesses are increasingly finding themselves in the middle of culture wars

Corporate rebrands often provoke polarized backlash despite mostly being commercial efforts to sell products and maintain brand visibility.
fromThe Walrus
1 week ago

Poilievre's Hallucinatory Politics | The Walrus

In mid-July, Pierre Poilievre was apparently feeling very glum. Sources close to the Conservative leader told the CBC that he was deliberately reducing his public appearances. He was doing some self-reflection. One confidant described him as "deflated." The idea that Poilievre-a man whose tight T-shirt chest puffing had become a campaign trademark-was hiding out in a corner like an old party balloon was indeed quite the image to contemplate.
Miscellaneous
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

I never hold back': Sally Mann on her controversial family photos and becoming a writer

Sally Mann is an influential, candid photographer whose atmospheric black-and-white images of Southern family life, notably Immediate Family, provoked cultural controversy.
Black Lives Matter
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

I'm Out': Newsmax Host Greg Kelly Boycotts Woke' NFL, Accuses Commissioner of Helping to Ruin This Country'

Greg Kelly announced a boycott of the NFL, accusing the league of going woke, harming the country, and criticizing commissioner Roger Goodell's motives.
fromAxios
2 weeks ago

Fresh discoveries are rewriting U.S. history amid backlash from conservatives

Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

Kellyanne Conway Gleefully Says Trump Is Taking Control' of American Institutions: Arts and Sports and Entertainment'

Conway hosted Friday's Hannity, where she pointed to recent comments by the restaurant's founder, who cast the ill-fated logo change in grim terms. If they don't get back to keeping the country, then it ain't gonna work, he said. Conway's guest went even further, stating that the failed logo change was part of a much larger sinister undertow of our culture led by the radical Marxist left.
US politics
US politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Donald Trump's War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow

The administration is reshaping cultural institutions through firings and reviews to enforce ideological conformity and curb pluralistic independence in the arts.
fromThe Walrus
2 weeks ago

Sydney Sweeney, Cracker Barrel, and the Culture War That Won't End | The Walrus

T hroughout the culture war flareups of the last fifteen years or so, liberals and conservatives have periodically traded fire over matters that are fundamentally symbolic and often negligible to meaningless at the level of actual political substance. In their own different (and often quite cynical) ways, both factions have been adept at converting cultural issues into the language of political grievance and, in turn, into supposed forms of political engagement-and even activism-that have often amounted to little more than new kinds of shopping
US politics
fromIndependent
3 weeks ago

Colin Murphy: Sally Rooney and JD Vance know that democracy demands dissent

Both sides of the culture wars have been on the wrong end of draconian measures, including the ban on Palestine Action
UK politics
fromJezebel
3 weeks ago

Leader of the Free World Mad that Museum Says Slavery Was Bad

There's a lot of history to our country, both positive and negative, but we need to keep moving forward. We can't just keep focusing on the negative-all that does is divide us," she added. "Like just about every other country in the world, the United States has a checkered past. We should be able to take our kids, our students through the Smithsonian and be proud when we leave.
US politics
fromScary Mommy
1 month ago

Oklahoma Schools To Implement "Anti-Woke" Tests For Teachers From Blue States

"If you're coming from these states, you will take a test through the state department to show you're aligned to our standards," Walters said in a press conference in late July. "You're not going to come here and teach that there's 27 genders ... you're not going to undermine American exceptionalism by teaching anti-American and anti-semitic hate."
US politics
fromVulture
1 month ago

Trump Won't Shut Up About TV

Donald Trump has been especially attuned to everything happening on social media, engaging in cultural debates, including Sydney Sweeney's jeans controversy and targeting media personalities.
US politics
#sydney-sweeney
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago
US politics

Jesse Watters Floats Sydney Sweeney-Barron Trump Marriage After President Heaps Praise on Actress: Greatest Political Dynasty'

fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago
US politics

Jesse Watters Floats Sydney Sweeney-Barron Trump Marriage After President Heaps Praise on Actress: Greatest Political Dynasty'

#education
fromBuzzFeed
4 months ago
NYC parents

I'm A Teacher. Here's The Shocking Truth About The "Woke" Indoctrination Of Students.

fromBuzzFeed
4 months ago
NYC parents

I'm A Teacher. Here's The Shocking Truth About The "Woke" Indoctrination Of Students.

SF LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

Oh, to dream the impossible dream of being a 'normal gay' like Richard Grenell

Richard Grenell promotes the concept of a 'normal gay,' critiquing cultural perceptions while aligning with conservative ideologies.
Silicon Valley food
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 months ago

Chris Cillizza Reveals His Tesla Was Vandalized With Musk Is a Nazi' Sign at Son's Soccer Tournament

The politicization of everyday life, including products like Tesla and fast food, is problematic and detrimental to recognizing shared humanity.
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 months ago

Harvey Weinstein is not that bad' and Blake Lively is not a good person: How the American right has turned the tables

Rand's contemporary disciples, who are many and very illustrious, have not lost sight of the lesson of the mother of objectivism and fertile narcissism.
Left-wing politics
Arts
fromThe Nation
4 months ago

Will the Creative Class Go MAGA?

The interplay of culture, creativity, and politics reveals complex tensions between artistic expression and authoritarianism.
fromNew York Post
4 months ago

Crowd-funding alleged cold blooded killers and racists - this is no way to fight a culture war

It's as if we're currently living in a late night commercial for ambulance chasers: did you do something odious or antisocial that has terrible real world consequences? You may be entitled to compensation from your fellow believers.
Fundraising
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

An irrelevant bourgeois ritual: this year's Turner prize shortlist is the soppiest ever

The Turner Prize has lost its edge due to earnestness in culture wars, resulting in a bland shortlist.
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