Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
MSNBC Columnist
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is Professor of History at The New School in New York City. She is the author of two books, most recently “Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession,” and is currently a Carnegie Fellow, working on a new book about education and political polarization.
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The president used to trash exercise and wellness culture. Now he’s rebooting the outdated Presidential Fitness Test as a public school requirement.
Perhaps most pressing are concerns about the Trump administration’s ethical breaches on issues of security and science.
“Speaking with American Men” is a Democratic initiative to win young men, a group Democrats lost ground with in 2024.
As the press first reported this tragedy, they did little to challenge the political framing established by the suspect.
Portnoy, who is Jewish, took to Instagram to first rage against the perpetrators, but later announced he would make this ugly incident a “teaching moment.”
Kennedy and Oz give voice to their audiences’ frustrations with the insufficiency of our health care system to solve or address their most pressing problems
Democrats are going to have to work harder than usual to capture the support of young people they can usually count on — or at least count on not to vote Republican.
His run is emblematic of a type of masculine success that feels out of reach to a generation of young men.
Holocaust Remembrance Day is an opportunity to confront dangerous conspiracies and denialism we’ve seen swarming around the Oct. 7 kidnappings.
The skepticism that met Israeli women’s claims perpetuates traditions of dehumanizing Jews.
