Latest forecast of the 2020 presidential election between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden by Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight
McKay Coppins"Remember, Trump has a meaningful chance of winning the election, per our forecast—a little worse than the chances of rolling a 1 on a six-sided die and a little better than the chances that it’s raining in downtown Los Angeles."
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For the first time, Dallin H. Oaks, next in line for the presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, called Black lives matter an “eternal truth all reasonable people should support.”
Sharing the internet with America is like sharing your living room with a rhinoceros. It’s huge, it’s right there, and whatever it’s doing now, you sure as hell know about it.
The Trump administration has informed Congress it intends to accept only 15,000 refugees this fiscal year, a new historic low for the US.
McKay CoppinsIt is kind of amazing how little time we've spent in 2020 talking about immigration and refugees, given how central those issues were in 2016—not to mention stuff like this
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In the predawn hours of a recent Tuesday morning in a suburban Salt Lake City hospital, Laurie Terry's doctor made a disturbing discovery: Utah's record setting Covid-19 outbreak had become more dangerous than many knew.
McKay CoppinsYikes: "On Friday, the University of Utah hospital's ICU was at 104% capacity."
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McKay CoppinsUtah heart attack victim competes for medical care amid surge in Covid-19 cases
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About two-thirds of the 1,000 plus parents separated from their kids under a 2017 pilot program were deported before a federal judge ordered they be found.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s sprawling political operation has raised well over $1 billion since he took the White House in 2017 — and set a lot of it on fire. Trump bought a...
Campaigns are using familiar and emerging technologies to polarize voters, spread false narratives, sow confusion, and drown out the truth. An expert panel discusses the impact of information warfare.
Loyalty to the Republican Party is ingrained in the Latter-day Saints religion. But in Arizona, some find the president’s behavior at odds with their values and are shifting to Joe Biden.
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McKay CoppinsHow Mormons Fed Up With Trump Could Help Lift Biden in Arizona
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People of faith should embody moral and intellectual integrity.
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McKay Coppins"The problem goes far beyond an inconsistent application of a biblical ethic. What the Trump years have exposed is...that many evangelical Christians have not brought anything distinctively Christian to politics," @Peter_Wehner writes
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Websites featuring local news could be efforts to sway elections, media analysts say. But one publisher says he’s filling a void left by the closure of community newspapers
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McKay CoppinsBrian Timpone, who oversees the effort, told @grahamtoday last month that he "plans to establish another 15,000 websites within the next year."
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A nationwide operation of 1,300 local sites publishes coverage that is ordered up by Republican groups and corporate P.R. firms.
McKay CoppinsAs Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place:
"The network...is built not on traditional journalism but on propaganda ordered up by dozens of conservative think tanks, political operatives, corporate executives and [PR] professionals"
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