Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

Author of 'The Water Diviner,' now a film with Russell Crowe, and screenwriter of 'The Pacific with Sam Neill.'

When the world’s biggest oinker called seasoned White House correspondent, Catherine Lucey, “piggy,” the world was horrified.
Of the many stains on the soiled toilet-paper roll of horrors Donald Trump has delivered, I don’t know why this one upsets me so much. But it does. And I know I’m not alone.

Zohran Mamdani puts the social in socialism and rides a blue wave to victory. He’s got the MAGA faithful sweating in their too-tight pleather hammer pants. Trump called New York’s newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani a “little communist,” and a “communist lunatic.” For Ted Cruz he’s a “literal, Karl Marx-quoting, America-hating jihadist.” Mamdani’s biggest crime? …

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Why the No Kings movement needs to keep its head. On 18 October, two percent of America’s voting-age population took to the streets to tell President Donald J. Trump to, respectfully, fuck off. Their message was simple. No Kings. Not now. Not ever. That’s important. But it’s not enough. Resistance on that scale sends a …

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