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Feb. 4, 2021, 1:17 p.m. ETFeb. 4, 2021, 1:17 p.m. ET “Beautiful Things” is scheduled for publication on April 6.Credit...Gallery Books, via Associated Press Hunter Biden is publishing a memoir about his struggles with addiction and drug abuse — from his first sips of alcohol as a child, when he was dealing with the aftermath of family tragedy, to his crack-cocaine use. The book, titled “Beautiful Things,” is scheduled to be published in the United States on April 6 by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It has already drawn praise from high-profile writers like Anne Lamot...

ABSTRACT: In the past decade, people associated with what is known as the alt-right have employed a strategy similar to that of progressive, antiracist satirists to advance a decidedly white supremacist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, and deadly serious agenda. As this article documents, the alt-right weaponizes irony to attract and radicalize potential supporters, challenge progressive ideologies and institutions, redpill normies, and create a toxic counterpublic. Discussing examples of satiric irony generated by the extreme right alongside those produced by the (often mainstream) left, this arti...

POLITICO Can Donald Trump Survive ‘Virtual Impeachment’? Stripped of his most powerful social media weapons, the president faces an existential crisis at a moment of maximum peril. Getty Images Link Copied POLITICO Magazine. On the defining day of his tempestuous reign, Donald Trump, typically so incorrigibly noisy, was rendered all but muzzled. Due to Wednesday’s shameful, world-watched putsch at the Capitol, Twitter and Facebook locked the outgoing president’s powerful accounts, stripping him of some of his most important weaponry and leading to a nearly unprecedented day-long stret...

The ‘Trump Bump’ for Books Has Been Significant. Can It Continue? As a new administration looms, publishers have snapped up another crop of forthcoming Trump books by prominent journalists and pundits. Credit...Associated Press Published Dec. 24, 2020Updated Dec. 25, 2020 In the past four years, publishers have released more than a thousand books about Donald J. Trump. Authors have examined seemingly every facet of his persona, in works about his presidency, family, political rise, business dealings, reality-TV career and golfing habits. The body of work is so voluminous that there�...

Carlos Lozada, and Rick Gates.) There’s also a deep shelf of massively buzzy Trump titles that came out during the first three years of the 45th presidency, from Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury to the infamous Anonymous tome to a tell-all from Omarosa Manigault Newman. All of which is to say that Trump books have been an undeniable powerhouse for the industry, the same way Trump coverage juiced the audiences of print, digital, and broadcast news. Despite the waning days of the Trump administration, the gold rush isn’t over yet. The next wave of Trump books is nigh, with a who...