When a 25-year-old TikTok star faced off against a longtime county supervisor, Arizona Democrats chose decades of community work over viral moments and national fame.
David Hogg
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We’re DNC Members. Here’s What We Need From the Next Party Chair.
The Democratic National Committee votes this winter for a new chair. After a bruising election, two California DNC members explain their frustrations and hopes for the party.
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Channeling Rage: Trump and Fox News
Here we stand Remote control buttons In our sweaty little hands As one man We’re lining up and waiting For someone’s command… TV rules– Pretty soon you won’t be able To turn it off at all! All you fools Then it will turn you off— Your back’s against the wall! —“T.V. Age,” Joe Jackson, 1982 […]
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Someone Tell Bill Maher Not to Waste His Sympathy on Laura Ingraham
Watch this clip very carefully from last night’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Do you notice that Maher doesn’t actually refute any of Eliot Spitzer and Heather McGee’s points about David Hogg’s pushback against Laura Ingraham’s rhetorical assault? As Northeastern University Professor Dan Kennedy observes here, all parties involved in the Hogg-Ingraham controversy simply exercised […]
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#ShutUpYourDrivel: The Demise of Laura Ingraham
As the old joke goes, like school on Saturday, she has no class. It’s fair to regard the self-destruction of Fox News host and wingnut-radio personality Laura Ingraham as the most morbidly funny story of the year. Ingraham’s self-righteous rhetorical assault on Parkland survivor David Hogg, and her subsequent fake apology to Hogg in the […]
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Right Wingers Can’t Bully the Parkland Students
They faced far worse on February 14, 2018.
