For the cover of the September 16, 2024, Fall Books special issue, Mark Ulriksen painted a woman, alone, surrounded by cats and happily engrossed in reading—an example of the “childless cat ladies” decried by J. D. Vance, the Vice-Presidential Republican candidate, in an interview from 2021. Vance’s remarks—in which he claims that these women are … Read more
When Teamsters president Sean O’Brien addressed the Republican National Convention yesterday, it was the first time a leader of the union—of any union, in fact—had taken the stage at the RNC. “President Trump had the backbone to open the doors to this Republican convention and that’s unprecedented,” he said in his speech, which was sharply … Read more
Former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick J.D. Vance has openly praised the work of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, a sign that the agency’s broad approach to antitrust enforcement could enjoy some level of support from a second Trump administration. Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio, joined the presidential ticket on Monday at the Republican National … Read more
