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Why do the storytellers whitewash Fox even when Fox becomes the story?
Three Fox hosts contacted Mark Meadows during the 1/6 insurrection. Jeremy Littau thinks that should change how the press does news.
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Will the Democrats learn? When you think you're winning against bullshit, you’re actually losing
On covid, the Republicans are swiftboating Biden.
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The president’s low approval is democracy working. Voters are holding him accountable
The problem is a Republican Party that's not promising to do more to fight the covid pandemic. It's promising to do less.
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Cheney hints at criminal charges for Trump in panel vote to hold Mark Meadows in contempt
But perhaps the biggest news was that the vote was televised.
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He was set to testify about a PowerPoint outlining step-by-step Trump’s failed coup. Then Mark Meadows chickened out
He’s invoking privilege he doesn’t have.
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America's future: less democracy nationally, more democracy locally, plus violence and blood
My interview with Sea Change Radio's Alex Wise.
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The good news is we’re on the cusp of a new way of ordering the American polity. The bad news? We could fall short
Thomas Zimmer: Multiracial democracy will be expanded or aborted.
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The midterms will be decided by swing voters ready to reward the GOP for trying to kill them
Why democracy is its own worst enemy.
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History doesn't care if the GOP is on the wrong side
Progress is a consequence of politics.
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Your friendly neighborhood sociologist: What we talk about when we talk about white supremacy
It’s not what it used to be.
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Are Republicans heirs of Lenin?
Not quite, but the comparison is instructive.
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Our crisis is one of humility
Pride, shame, hate, violence, fascism -- all from the same source.