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September 17, 2024
Marcy Wheeler
J.D. Vance’s Admission Shouldn’t Shock You—They’ve Done This for Years
You think they couldn’t possibly be so low as to intentionally say false things trying to spread them? Think again. Right-wingers revel in it.
September 11, 2024
Edith Olmsted
J.D. Vance’s Pet Memes Request Comes Back to Bite Trump After Debate
There is no way that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance will live down these pet memes.
July 27, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Girl, So Confusing: Will the “Brat” Memes Help or Hurt Kamala Harris?
The vice president is having a brat summer. But can she maintain this groundswell of support from young voters?
July 23, 2024
Paige Oamek
Kamala Harris “Brat” Memes Spark Confusion Among Democrats
What does “kamala IS brat” even mean?
July 23, 2024
Grace Segers
What Coconut Memes Say About Kamala Harris’s Appeal to Young Voters
Harris’s new presidential effort exists in the context of all youth-driven campaigns that came before her.
June 19, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Martin Shkreli Joins Trump Crypto Game in the Weirdest Way Ever
The pharmaceutical price gouger and general jerk is behind a brand new Trump-branded cryptocurrency.
June 14, 2024
Kaila Philo
The Internet Supercharged the Exploitation of Black Culture
Legacy Russell traces America’s reliance on—and profit from—Black imagery, from the 1910s to the Dancing Baby meme.
March 6, 2015
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
What Happens When Mein Kampf's Copyright Expires?
April 1, 2014
Noam Scheiber
The Savvy Tech Innovator Who Invented "This===>"
22-year-old entrepreneur finds internet riches
May 6, 2013
Marin Cogan
The Art of the Washington Photobomb
On Capitol Hill, the web meme is a daily fact of life
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