The president should be scrutinized with the same intensity as others in the Epstein Files.
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Who Will Save Public Media?
With the Corporation for Public Broadcasting eliminated, public radio and TV face their greatest crisis yet. But philanthropy can and should fill the gap.
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The Media Threat We Face and the Media Revolution We Need
The problem isn’t just disinformation or right-wing media, explains a former Democratic member of Congress, but how media reaches us.
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November 6 Is When Americans Must ‘Rise for Climate’
I have to admit, my first reaction was, “Not another rally.” This is not to dismiss or disrespect those who will be participating in today’s “Rise for Climate” demonstrations across the country (as well as internationally) today. Yes, it’s important to take to the streets to condemn the moral scandal that is the Trump administration’s […]
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If Andrew Gillum Makes History, One Floridian Won’t Be There to See It
If Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum defeats Rep. Ron DeSantis to become Florida’s next Governor on November 6, it will be an embarrassing defeat for Donald Trump and the Fox News fiends supporting the Republican’s campaign. It will be a tremendous victory for Sen. Bernie Sanders and those who have persuasively argued that the Democratic Party […]
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George H.W. Bush and Clarence Thomas: Two Dudes with Bad Attitudes
Bush’s nomination of Thomas sent a clear signal to the Harvey Weinsteins of the world that sexual harassers face few punitive consequences.
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#ThemToo: Women Who Voted for Trump Betrayed Their Gender
Is there really a moral difference? Earlier this week, we were moved by the #metoo movement of women highlighting their experiences with sexual harassment, assault and abuse. #Metoo cast new and well-deserved moral shame upon those who enabled Harvey Weinstein’s misogynist malevolence for decades—and those who continue to stand side-by-side with sexism. Of course, those […]
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How the Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine Gave Us Donald Trump
The decision by the Reagan administration has given us three decades of broadcast news that recklessly reaffirms prejudices.
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Judge Not: Neil Gorsuch Doesn’t Deserve to Be Confirmed to the Supreme Court
The activists pushing Senate Democrats to resist Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat Republicans robbed from Barack Obama recognize that Neil Gorsuch has no business replacing the late Antonin Scalia. Will Senate Democrats come to the same conclusion? The case against confirming Gorsuch is the same as the case against confirming Robert Bork […]
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This is What You Call Getting It Terribly Wrong
Almost as bad as the mainstream media’s pre-debate obsession with normalizing Donald Trump is the Fourth Estate’s fixation on promoting the idea that there are still reasonable, moderate Republican politicians in this country, that the GOP hasn’t completely gone goofy, that the party isn’t consumed by cynicism. Case in point: the questionable coverage of a […]
