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Liberals Are Losing the Journalism Wars
As major media outlets erect paywalls, conservative publishers are flooding the country with free, right-wing propaganda paid for by Republicans.
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That Times piece on the right-wing "local news" network made me finally write up my unpopular (among media people) take on paywalls
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Supreme Court Justices Are Politicians, Too
And just like Republican politicians, the conservative justices are dedicated to preserving the right's minority rule.
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If you want to understand what Amy Coney Barrett will do on the Supreme Court, your best bet is not to watch her hearings, but to watch what the Supreme Court is currently doing, and then assume more of that
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Making the Supreme Court Safe for Democracy
Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.
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"Here again, we see the wisdom of the old socialists and Progressives at the turn of the twentieth century: far better to disempower the court than to hope that it rules in your favor."
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Is California Doomed to Keep Burning?
Years of unchecked development and bad climate policy have set the state on fire. Where do we go from here?
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California is still very much on fire. We asked Mike Davis why that is and @NaomiAKlein what we can do about it.
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The Right and Wrong Way for Biden to Attack Trump’s Taxes
The president is not a phony billionaire. He's a real tax cheat.
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I think Joe Biden should resist the temptation to use the Trump taxes story to paint him as a "bad businessman" or a "phony billionaire" and instead use them to paint him as a crook and a cheat.
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What If Democrats Just Promised to Make Things Work Again?
The party rejected calls this year for a massive reordering of society. Here’s a different kind of revolutionary idea.
MSNBC selectively remembers the Iraq War
Updated: Morning Joe and Luke Russert leave out some important context. Like how much MSNBC pushed for war
The Police Are Pretty Sure They’re Going to Get Away With It
In Portsmouth, Virginia, cops have been systematically using their state power to tyrannize political enemies.
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My question: Is this a police department that believes meaningful reform of their practices is imminent, or one that believes no one will ever touch them?
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Madison Cawthorn Is the Future of the Republican Party
He could be a rising star of the party, or an alt-right Trojan horse. Or maybe there's no difference between the two.
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The future of the GOP is a guy with no discernible legitimate source of income who won't explain why he follows precisely 88 people on Twitter
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A few years ago, I wrote that the "alt-right" is "the only effective and successful youth outreach strategy the GOP currently employs." Its future leaders will be molded by it. They will look a lot like this kid.
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A Government Too Broken to Write $600 Checks
The president and the Senate majority leader weren ’t even in the room for the failed negotiations to save the economy.
Why isn't ventilation part of the conversation on reopening schools? - STAT
Covid-19 is mainly transmitted through respiratory droplets in the air. Why isn't improving ventilation a key part of the effort to reopen schools?
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"When I mentioned these possibilities to a friend who teaches in the New York City schools, she replied, 'Don’t worry about our HVAC systems. They’re all broken.'"
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Throw the Bums Out
We are in the midst of a world-historic failure of governance. Why isn’t anyone in charge acting like they are responsible for it?
Thoughts on Antibody Persistence and the Pandemic
The fundamental challenge of dealing with this pandemic is uncertainty. There are just too many important things that we don't know - and what's more, they aren't easy to find out, either. We've seen that with the waves of optimism and pessimism...
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@interfluidity third-to-last paragraph of this seemed like a clear explanation of the possibilities. (basically we don't know if it's good or bad news yet)
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Abolish These Police Departments
Minneapolis’s police force has forfeited its right to exist. So have other cities’.
The Police Take the Side of White Vigilantes
Over the past week, cops have shown that they share a coherent ideology.
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We don't have "good cops" and "bad cops," we just have "cops," a political force with a clear and coherent mission.
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Andrew Cuomo’s College Credits Don’t Add Up
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received an email from a CUNY Student Senate member about a proposal to raise tuition and fees, which confused me because the governor has claimed to have eliminated tuition, but then remembered that The Atlantic still hasn't corrected this story
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Trump’s Coronavirus Task Farce
Councils, work groups, and advisory boards are planning the future of the country. No one is doing much about the present.
Democrats Aren’t Stuck With Joe Biden
No one has to tie themselves in knots to defend him if they don’t want to.
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If your organization spent weeks drafting a letter urging the Biden campaign to responsibily address Tara Reade's story, only to see it stonewall and refuse, I have good news: There's still time to draft a different letter.
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This is a completely sincere proposal but I obviously don't think it will actually happen. So it is also an invitation to think about why it won't happen.
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Rupert Murdoch, tax cheat
Updated: Remember how outraged everyone on Fox was that GE paid no taxes last year? Funny story...
Democrats Decide, Again, Not to Try Anything New
The party chose a caretaker to look after a burning house.