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Drew Brees on If Players Kneel This Season in Protest: 'I Will Never Agree With Anybody Disrespecting the Flag'
The murder of George Floyd and the ensuing uprisings have lent additional validation to Colin Kaepernick's National Anthem protests that swept the NFL.
Will he go?
A law professor fears a meltdown this November.
Sean Illing
We're all friends, so I'm gonna level with you: things are not great
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Sean Illing
This guy will make things as ugly as possible. It's all he knows. The lesson of the last few years is so clear: our norms won't save us, our institutions won't save us, almost anything is possible. If he loses, he'll go. Eventually. But it won't be pretty.
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The Stories Dan Crenshaw Tells Himself - The Bulwark
Tim Miller on the pathos of Trump’s most effective defender.
Why the policing problem isn’t about "a few bad apples"
"The system was designed this way": A former prosecutor on the fundamental problem with law enforcement.
When police officers are told they’re in a war, they act like it
"We are the action arm for a fucked-up national mindset": A CIA officer turned cop speaks out.
The ironic invisibility of the loudest man in America
Some conservatives want Trump to speak on the protests. They should be careful what they wish for.
America at the breaking point
The social upheaval of the 1960s meets the political polarization and institutional dysfunction of the present.
Sean Illing
"When we elected Donald Trump, we elected a political arsonist." Must read from @ezraklein
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Thousands of Americans across the US are peacefully marching against police violence
Protests against George Floyd’s death and police brutality, in photos.
Sean Illing
The media is an actor, not a spectator, in every story it covers because coverage is always amplification. Too many of us pretend that’s not the case.
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Cop Explains How It Feels To Live Every Day In Fear Someone Might Record You Brutalizing A Civilian
The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.
Twitter has finally started fact-checking Trump
After the president tweeted misleading information about mail-in ballots, Twitter applied a warning label to Trump’s tweets for the first time.
Inside corporations’ war on science
A new book explains how corporations create a climate of doubt around science and expertise.
Over 20,000 Black People Have Died From COVID-19 Nationwide
New figures released by an independent research organization reveal that more than 20,000 black Americans have died from the COVID-19 disease, confirming indications that African Americans have been disproportionately impacted by coronavirus.
Is America too libertarian to deal with the coronavirus?
Why widespread testing in the country may not work.
Why are liberals more afraid of the coronavirus than conservatives?
Covid-19 and the complex politics of fear.
Why the Uncle Joe-Can’t-Internet Criticism Is Mostly Malarkey
Joe Biden is definitely losing the internet—but the North Star of his campaign is the normie voter, which means it shouldn’t become a meme factory. The golden rule: “Does this work for Joe?”
The president’s job is to manage risk. But Trump is the risk.
Trump was a gamble. It’s not paying off.
The fake "Obamagate" scandal shows how Trump hacks the media
He is "flooding the zone with shit." And it’s working.
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Sean Illing
The virtues of 20th century journalism have become outright pathologies in a 21st century media environment. Thus the zone is perpetually flooded with shit. Some thoughts
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We don’t have a president, or a plan
60 days into the coronavirus crisis, the White House does not have a plan, a framework, a philosophy, or a goal.
Sean Illing
"It is the most profound and complete failure of presidential leadership in modern history."
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Donald Trump Has No Plan
Thousands are dying each week, the economy is cratering, and the president is at a total loss.