The Right’s Crusade to “Make America Hot Again”

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Sep 10, 202647:46News & Politics

The New Yorker staff writer Jennifer Wilson joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how the right’s embrace of lingerie and cleavage signals the changing politics of sexuality. They talk about how the actress Sydney Sweeney’s app...

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