Remember the “alt-right”? Way back in the two-thousand-and-teens, the loose coalition of white nationalists, neo-Nazi pranksters and anti-immigrant extremists was more likely to be found in obscure corners of the internet than on mainstream conservative outlets like Fox News. Groups that monitor extremism say that has changed, and that the extremes have become mainstream. They […]
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Lee Zeldin, the rising Jewish Republican star tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Environmental Protection Agency, said he and his family were among other incoming officials targeted with bomb threats, in his case, one that came with a pro-Palestinian message. The FBI said Wednesday it was aware of “numerous bomb threats and swatting […]
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Sid Rosenberg was anxious, despite his decades speaking to the public, as he prepared to take the stage at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday. “I was nervous, 100%, when I was about halfway down the red carpet, walking closer and closer to the podium and the microphone,” the conservative talk radio host […]
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In today’s hyperpartisan atmosphere, in Israel as in the US, some couples decide not only not to marry a person with antithetical views – but even to split up over such disagreements. By one estimate, as many as 30% of Americans are in relationships with partners who do not share their political viewpoint. In the […]
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