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Beyond BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump-Russia Story
The most challenging task is choosing the 10 worst embarrassments. The most notable aspect is that they all go toward promoting the same narrative.
Politics
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A Problem for Kamala Harris: Can a Prosecutor Become President in the Age of Black Lives Matter?
The regressive reality of what prosecutors do is proving difficult for the senator and likely presidential candidate to rationalize.
Henry Cuellar's Policy Preferences Could Destroy the World. But Then Again, He's a Really Nice Guy.
Politics are about hard choices. The planet or Henry Cuellar?
The End of Roe
Millions of Women Already Live in a Post-Roe America: A Journey Through the Anti-Abortion South
Across the United States, millions of women live with a legal right to abortion but without meaningful access to exercise that right.
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Trump’s Articles of Impeachment Are Writing Themselves, With Echoes of Richard Nixon Growing Stronger
BuzzFeed News dropped one of the biggest bombshells of the Trump presidency: that Donald Trump asked Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.
Deconstructed Podcast
When Do We “Impeach the Motherfucker”? (With Rashida Tlaib)
Tlaib is among a crop of progressive congressional newcomers threatening to shake up the Democratic Party status quo.
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Richard Ojeda on the LA Teachers Strike: “Don't Make Us Go West Virginia on You”
I’ll never forget the day we saw a Kentucky teacher post a picture of a rally sign that read: “Don’t make us go West Virginia on you!”
Making a Killing
Amid Internal Investigation Over Leaks to Media, the Center for American Progress Fires Two Staffers
The staffers were investigated for leaking an email exchange to The Intercept that reflected improper influence by the UAE within the think tank.
LA Teachers Are Mad About Charter School Growth. Why Won't Democrats Acknowledge That?
As national Democrats voice support for LA teachers, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the first to acknowledge the strike is partially about charter schools.
From Athens to North Carolina, Filmmaker Astra Taylor Asks: "What Is Democracy?"
In “What Is Democracy?,” filmmaker Astra Taylor asks how the struggles of the living can illuminate political theory’s most basic questions.