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Thirty-Five Years Later, Ted Levine Is Sorry for Being the Villain
Stars, Stripes, & StupidityThe XX Files

Thirty-Five Years Later, Ted Levine Is Sorry for Being the Villain

by Carol MarksFebruary 18, 2026

In 1991, The Silence of the Lambs swept the Oscars. Best Picture. Best Director. Best Actor. Best Actress. Best Screenplay. It became part of the cultural lexicon. Hannibal Lecter was crowned one of cinema’s greatest…

From Ice House to Winter House: How Politics Froze the Olympics
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From Ice House to Winter House: How Politics Froze the Olympics

by Carol MarksFebruary 5, 2026

There was a time when the Winter Olympics were about snow, speed, strength, and the thrill of watching athletes do things the human body probably shouldn’t be able to do on frozen surfaces. It was…

Bad Bunny, Shock Value, and the NFL’s Fake Promise of Unity
Stars, Stripes, & StupidityThe Side-Eye

Bad Bunny, Shock Value, and the NFL’s Fake Promise of Unity

by Carol MarksFebruary 3, 2026February 3, 2026

Commissioner Roger Goodell insists the Super Bowl halftime show will be about bringing people together. That line gets recycled every year. It never holds up. The league does not pick performers known for playing it…

Remember Chris Cuomo? He’s Now Threatening People Over Vocabulary
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Remember Chris Cuomo? He’s Now Threatening People Over Vocabulary

by Carol MarksJanuary 22, 2026

Oh Right. That Guy. I had honestly forgotten about Chris Cuomo. Not in a dramatic way, either. More in the way you forget about a reality show contestant who got eliminated early and then pops…

Trump Social Media Vetting Plan Turns DHS Into TikTok Review Board
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Trump Social Media Vetting Plan Turns DHS Into TikTok Review Board

by Carol MarksDecember 11, 2025

The Trump administration wants visitors from forty two countries to hand over five years of their social media history before they enter the United States. That means five years of content that stretch from casual…

Michael Fanone’s Saudi Exile Fantasy Is Peak Political Fan Fiction
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Michael Fanone’s Saudi Exile Fantasy Is Peak Political Fan Fiction

by Carol MarksDecember 1, 2025

The Return of the Apocalypse Prophets Michael Fanone has resurfaced with a brand new prophecy about Donald Trump. This time, he claims the president is inching toward a dramatic escape to Saudi Arabia, complete with…

Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and the Ego Problem in Conservative Media
Stars, Stripes, & Stupidity

Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and the Ego Problem in Conservative Media

by Carol MarksNovember 6, 2025

When Former Fox Stars Play God It’s getting hard to tell where journalism ends and self-worship begins. Watching Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Matt Walsh lately, you’d think the fate of Western civilization hinged on…

The Media’s Third Term Fever Dream Is Back and Trump Is Laughing
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The Media’s Third Term Fever Dream Is Back and Trump Is Laughing

by Carol MarksOctober 29, 2025

Trump Teases, Media Panics: The Third Term Fever Dream Lives On Every few weeks, someone in the press wakes up convinced Donald Trump is plotting to install himself as Supreme Leader of America Forever. Cue…

Tone-Deaf, Masked, and Melting Down: Hollywood’s Weekly Reality Check
Stars, Stripes, & Stupidity

Tone-Deaf, Masked, and Melting Down: Hollywood’s Weekly Reality Check

by Carol MarksOctober 20, 2025

Tone-Deaf, Masked, and Melting Down: Hollywood’s Weekly Reality Check If there’s one thing Hollywood loves more than attention, it’s pretending to hate it. From bad timing to political tantrums, this week’s A-list behavior proves there’s…

Amazon, Don’t Disarm 007: Guns Are Non-Negotiable in Bond’s Imagery
Stars, Stripes, & Stupidity

Amazon, Don’t Disarm 007: Guns Are Non-Negotiable in Bond’s Imagery

by Carol MarksOctober 8, 2025

Amazon Disarming Bond Is Like Taking the Mission Out of MI6 Let me start with full disclosure: the husband and I recently set out on a mission to watch every James Bond film in the…

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I’m Carol Marks, the blogger behind An Americanist—a clean, no-nonsense space where politics, culture, and common sense meet. I write with a sharp eye and a dry wit, calling things the way ordinary Americans see them, not how elites wish we did. I don’t dress up the truth, I don’t follow the narrative, and I’m here to cut through the noise. If you’re tired of being talked down to, you’re in the right place.

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