( Videos circulating on social media purport to show police firing live ammunition at protestors.) It’s impossible to trust official numbers from Iran, but at least 76 people have been killed and more than 1,000 arrested by police since the protests began hours after Amini died on September 16. → Pure Heroine: Iran is nearing the end of its second week of protests after the death of 22 year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of its morality police, and the anger shows no signs of abating despite a furious crackdown by authorities. So declaring her the second coming of Mussolini would be, at the very least, premature. But as Yascha Mounk at The Atlantic points out, Meloni has disavowed fascism (“fascism is history,” she has said) and suspended members of the party who praise it. (For much of this crowd, everything and everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders is a fascist.) Here’s what we know: Meloni’s party, the Brothers of Italy, is a sort of nephew-thrice-removed of Italy's original fascist party. Sweden, which is experiencing similar issues, just saw a major election win for the far-right Sweden Democrats, which are now the second-largest party in the next parliament.įor mainstream American commentators, the main point of debate seems to be whether or not Meloni is a fascist.

There, the years-long migration crisis and pandemic-related economic struggles have combined with anxieties over the war in Ukraine to give right-wing politicians a boost. The aforementioned nervousness about Meloni isn't just due to her ability to bring a crowd to its feet her win in Italy is part of a rising tide of populist sentiment in Europe. → Stormy Weather: Hurricane Ian arrived in Florida on Wednesday as a Category 4 storm, flooding the streets with seawater, detritus, and at least one very confused visitor. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre assured reporters last Friday that the stock market is 'just one measure of the economy,' adding that 'it’s also important to look at what’s happening on Main Street.” Thank God we have the Inflation Reduction Act (which, uh, won't reduce inflation ). → This Is Fine: Mortgage rates surged to a 15-year high of 6.7% this week, while the S&P 500 plunged to its lowest level since 2020. can never produce real art Liam Collins and John Spencer outlined the path to victory in Ukraine and on Honestly, Kmele Foster, John McWhorter and Glenn Loury discussed race abolition and the so-called “Racial Reckoning” of 2020. Lisa Selin Davis investigated the scandal surrounding the new WPATH guidelines for treating transgender children, which seem designed mostly to protect doctors from being sued by regretful patients.Īlso: Walter Kirn explained why A.I. What a week at Common Sense! Reuel Marc Gerecht confronted the Biden administration's dogged pursuit of a nuclear deal with the oppressive Iranian regime whose abuse of women is currently making international headlines. Time to hang it all up and become a goat farmer. What's even left for me after this? Nothing, that's what. Hello, and welcome back to TGIF! I'm Kat Rosenfield: culture writer, novelist, podcast co-host, and now two-time pinch-hitter for Nellie Bowles, a.k.a.

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