More truth-telling progressive media would be great, but experience is full of disastrous efforts to create liberal outlets that can reach and influence voters.
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Would George Orwell Recognize Today’s Republican Party?
Would George Orwell Recognize Today’s Republican Party? Steve Benen’s new book grimly and wisely dissects the “Republican war on the recent past.”
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While Trump is Panned, Tucker Carlson Goes Fishing
The president failed to unify the nation after two mass shootings, and his biggest defender is taking a leave of absence.
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Post-Florence, The Fourth Estate Must Expand Its Climate Coverage
Once the water recedes, the excuses must recede as well. After the devastation and death wrought by Hurricane Florence, American print, broadcast and cable media outlets have a journalistic obligation to expand its coverage of the existential crisis of human-caused climate change. No longer can we tolerate having extensive coverage of extreme weather without that […]
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The Right-Wing Media Machine Was Built to Destroy People Like Christine Blasey Ford
They’re more aroused by destroying lives than Donald Trump was by Stormy Daniels.
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Warren’s Likely GOP Challenger: A Pain to Diehl With
Unlike John McCain, here’s one fellow who will never be confused for a statesman: [Massachusetts] State Representative Geoff Diehl, in an effort to ramp up immigration-focused attacks on US Senator Elizabeth Warren, [has] released a campaign video [asserting] that 20 people a day — or the equivalent of “over 7,000 people every year” — are […]
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The Ecstasy and the Agony
What did Dickens say about the best of times and the worst of times, the age of wisdom and the age of foolishness? Next week marks the tenth anniversary of two back-to-back events that still define our politics–and will continue to define our politics for generations to come. The first such event occurred on August […]
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How Is America’s Disregard of Russia Rachel Maddow’s Fault?
It’s not MSNBC star’s job to force people to care. It’s to pursue the truth and find the facts.
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Inconvenient Truths on Cable and Broadcast News?
Climate hawks need to put more pressure on media outlets to adequately cover the environment.
