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The president should be scrutinized with the same intensity as others in the Epstein Files.

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It’s Time for the Media to Press Trump on Allegations of Abusing a Minor

Who Will Save Public Media?

The Media Threat We Face and the Media Revolution We Need

November 6 Is When Americans Must ‘Rise for Climate’

If Andrew Gillum Makes History, One Floridian Won’t Be There to See It

George H.W. Bush and Clarence Thomas: Two Dudes with Bad Attitudes

#ThemToo: Women Who Voted for Trump Betrayed Their Gender

How the Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine Gave Us Donald Trump

Judge Not: Neil Gorsuch Doesn’t Deserve to Be Confirmed to the Supreme Court

This is What You Call Getting It Terribly Wrong

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