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Why Reactionaries Are Taking Over the World - The Atlantic

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Why reactionaries are taking over the world

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 32:57 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Maybe you’ve seen photos of Tehran in the 1970s, just before the Islamic Revolution: images of young women going to work in miniskirts, of couples making out in parks while wearing bell-bottoms, of people at pools in bikinis. It looks like Paris or Milan or Los Angeles. But in 1979 the revolution happened, and now Tehran looks like something from an earlier century. Sometimes I think that our whole world has become kind of like that—going backwards in time. The religious m

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