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Ben Alpers
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Professor of US History. Author of HAPPY DAYS: IMAGES OF THE PRE-SIXTIES PAST IN SEVENTIES AMERICA (Rutgers University Press, 2024). Opinions are entirely my own. He/him.
The right-wing party in Jamaica is called the Labour Party. It can be done.
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Before the 14th Amendment, there was no category of US citizenship. States determined citizenship.
December 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Of course, being opposed to the 14th Amendment is an old Supreme Court tradition (see Plessy v. Ferguson and the Slaughter-House Cases)
December 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Unlike Dershowitz, in person, Robbie George (yes, that's what he calls himself), is friendly and collegial. It's unbelievable how much monstrous behavior people are willing to look the other way at if it's coming from someone they consider their friend.
December 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
More importantly, anyone who thought Mamdani would want to lend his support to an unsuccessful effort to unseat that Speaker really doesn't understand much about politics.
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Sarah Isgur is a professional fascist who worked on Ted Cruz's first statewide campaign in Texas before working in the first Trump administration, first to help confirm Jeff Session and then as his Justice Department spokesperson.
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
With apologies to Barney Frank's description of Newt Gingrich as "a stupid person's idea of a smart person," Nuzzi is a functionally illiterate person's idea of a good writer.
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Nobody looks good in this story. Nuzzi could be dismissed as just one bad apple, except her behavior and status in her profession, and the behavior of respectable outlets like New York Mag and Vanity Fair, suggest that Nuzzi is just an indication of a far deeper rot in American political journalism
December 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Remember that New York Magazine claimed to have conducted not one, but two, investigations of Nuzzi's conduct (one in-house and another by an independent law firm) and both concluded that there was no evidence of bias in her coverage.

nymag.com/press/articl...
An Update to Our Readers
From New York Magazine.
nymag.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM