Today: "The Next Financial Shock to Come From Trump’s War With Iran" Plus, where do conservative Supreme Court justices get their information?; Trump thinks he can magically control the price of oil; what is TV’s problem with professors?; and more...

Based on his new recruitment policies, Pete Hegseth cares more about winning culture wars than the real war he just helped start.

By Brynn Tannehill

The recent oral arguments in an important voting rights case suggest that the right wing of the high court has a suspect media diet.

By Matt Ford

And he has zero understanding of the complexity of the markets his Iran war is messing with.

By Kate Aronoff

By Marin Scotten

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By Greg Sargent

Both Netflix’s Vladimir and HBO’s Rooster play into a politically charged caricature of academia.

By Phillip Maciak

America’s current credit rating masks a fatal contradiction, and a downgrade is the only honest assessment of an empire in decline.

By Logan McMillen

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By Anna Venarchik

Cauleen Smith recently encountered a terrifying specter. A spirit appeared to her portending a divine promise, like a biblical angel to Mary or the prophets. The spirit was of a white woman in billowing robes, her hair tied in a chignon. And she said that God—God Almighty Himself—will descend from the heavens to the earth and vindicate the Confederate States of America. The rebel nation’s white supremacy will be magnified. Its racial violence will be justified. It will be retrospectively acquitted in the living memory of the world. Its policies will rise. A new dispensation will come.

Smith, a multimedia artist who works primarily with video, took such a chilling warning seriously. "Vigilance is necessary against white supremacy," she said. If God’s radical appearance on behalf of the rebels were truly imminent, we needed to get moving.

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The president lied about his whereabouts leading up to Florida’s special election.

By Marin Scotten

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