It appears that Republicans remain nervous about holding on to the seat in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District vacated by current Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price–a seat the GOP has owned since 1979: Conservative ads are pummeling [Democratic contender Jon] Ossoff. Spots from the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC linked to House Speaker […]
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The New York Times Commits Ecocide
To quote the late hip-hop artist The Notorious BIG, it was all a dream. A dream that the world’s most prominent newspaper would actually cover the most important story of our time with the seriousness it deserves. A dream that the publication would recognize that false balance on climate science was nothing more than an […]
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The Fourth Estate Has an Obligation to Question Trump’s Motives in Syria
Last week, after the Washington Post published a bizarre story suggesting that the Trump administration had come around to supporting both a federal value-added tax and a carbon tax, Kevin Drum labeled the story bullpucky: Sure they are. This sounds more like a strategic leak to demonstrate “seriousness” on Trump’s part than anything that’s really […]
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Will Outrage Fatigue Allow Trump to Survive?
Trump and his enablers are betting on the likelihood that many Americans will become comfortably numb to his antics.
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What Do You Do When the Press Offends You?
Analyzing a new study on the pernicious power of right-wing media in terms of driving political polarization in the United States, Northeastern University professor Dan Kennedy observes: Though the report, published by the Columbia Journalism Review, does an excellent job of laying out the challenge posed by Breitbart and its ilk, it is less than […]
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GOP Lawmakers Compare Trump to Third World Dictator
Time is running out on efforts to give the new president the benefit of the doubt.
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How the Washington Post and New York Times Got Played by Bannon
Both media outlets had an arrangement with a Breitbart contributor.
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Check on It
Good on 2012 and 2016 Green Party candidate Jill Stein for trying to confirm the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election. (Stein was interviewed about her effort by investigative journalist Brad Friedman on Thanksgiving Eve.) You can never be too sure, especially these days: An election recount will take place soon in Wisconsin, after former […]
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Again with the Sid Blumenthal Conspiracies?
MSNBC’s Joy Reid noted yesterday that her colleague Chris Hayes established in 2007 that birtherism was created and promoted by the far-right. So are we really supposed to believe that skepticism about President Obama’s place of birth was the handiwork of…longtime Clinton associate Sidney Blumenthal? This dubious claim, now being relentlessly hyped by the right-wing […]
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If Trump Wins
It could happen. It could happen. In his 2009 book The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989, right-wing author Steven Hayward describes the aftermath of President Carter’s defeat on November 4, 1980: By Thursday the magnitude of the election was starting to course through the news cycle. “The election was a shocker,” Washington Post […]
