February Substack News Today

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/TwitterThere appears to be no level of unambiguous racism spewed by a right-wing “intellectual” that won’t be offered the benefit of the doubt by certain willfully oblivious contrarian pundits.Case in point, Huffpost journalist Christopher Mathias last week published a lengthy report outing Richard Hanania—an up-and-coming darling of the libertarian right and occasional contributor to The New York Times and The Wash...

When a prominent right-winger was outed as even-more-racist than we knew, very smart white male commentators tripped over themselves to blame anyone but him.

Democratic presidential candidates are taking opposing positions on issues including immigration, the Russia-Ukraine war and inflation.

UF Health offers medical interventions to minors to affirm their transgender identities, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

The social media site, TikTok, is teeming with videos promoting "top surgeries," double mastectomies on to help women present as male.