The Washington Post
Opinion | The Lincoln Project is trying to save the Republican Party from itself
2020-07-22 · Never Trumpers are showing that they’re more faithful to conservative principles than the GOP.
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The Atlantic
Donald Trump Is a Broken Man
4 min read · 2020-07-21 · In another time, in a different circumstance, there would perhaps be room to pity such a person.
Reader View · Shared by 56, including LoriBeth, George Conway🇺🇦, Klaus Eck, Katja Evertz, Ex Apologist, Feldmancreative 🌊, Jeff Fisher
The Daily Beast
Right-Wing Media Outlets Duped by a Middle East Propaganda Campaign
8 min read · 2020-07-06 · Conservative sites like Newsmax and Washington Examiner have published Middle East hot takes from “experts” who are actually fake personas pushing propaganda.
Reader View · Shared by 60, including LoriBeth, Charlie O'Keefe, Bjorn Larsen, Cory Doctorow, Patrick Gray, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Nick Lüthi, Dan Gillmor, emily bell
Guardian US
‘Reject the lies of history’: Washington reckons with tributes to racist past
6 min read · 2020-07-05 · The US capital is adorned with monuments to American history, but as schools change names and statues are toppled, legacies are under scrutiny
Reader View · Shared by 44, including LoriBeth
The Washington Post
Investigation rebukes Commerce Department for siding with Trump over forecasters during Hurricane Dorian
2020-07-10 · Report confirms Commerce officials were responding to orders from the White House.
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The New Yorker
To the World, We’re Now America the Racist and Pitiful
5 min read · 2020-07-03 · The United States was once able to reinvent itself. But political, economic, and legal inequality may now be too deeply entrenched.
Reader View · Shared by 58, including LoriBeth, William Gibson, Felix M, Ethan Zeigler, Christian Surchi, Christopher Lauer
news.bloomberglaw.com
Dakota Access Oil Line to Be Shut by Court in Blow for Trump (2)
4 min read · 2020-07-06 · The Dakota Access pipeline must shut down by Aug. 5, a district court ruled Monday in a stunning defeat for the Trump administration and the oil industry.
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The New Republic
The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism
~19 min read · 2020-07-06 · The critics of progressive identity politics have got it all wrong: They’re the illiberal ones.
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OM
Conflict Culture is making social Unsocial
4 min read · 2020-07-06 · Photo by Hasan Almasi on Unsplash This past week social media became a battleground for yet another death match between media and Silicon Valley. So much has been said, so I am going to abstai…
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POLITICO
The 6 Trump Bombshells Still Waiting to Explode
4 min read · 2020-06-25 · Reporters and historians describe the things we still don’t know about the president.
Reader View · Shared by 11, including LoriBeth
The Washington Post
Opinion | The worst president. Ever.
From 2020 · Move over, James Buchanan.
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The Atlantic
RIP Democracy
20+ min read · From 2020 · Russia’s goal was never merely to elect Donald Trump. Now, Vladimir Putin is poised to complete the mission he began four years ago.
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The Atlantic
This Is How Democracy Dies
5 min read · 2020-06-16 · A court ruling against the Philippine journalist Maria Ressa illustrates the erosion of democratic norms, the corruption of institutions, and the compromises of decision makers.
Reader View · Shared by 146, including LoriBeth, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Mathew Ingram
New York Magazine
The Still-Vital Case for Liberalism in a Radical Age
~12 min read · 2020-06-11 · Does the revolution need to involve quite so much canceling?
Reader View · Shared by 140, including ❤️ Umair, Christina Sommers, Matt Goodwin, Jason Stanley, Rick Powell, Paul Graham, Jeffrey Flier, David Wallace-Wells, Chris Hanretty, Liam Bright, Niall Ferguson, LoriBeth
The New Republic
This Is Fascism
10 min read · 2020-06-02 · Trump is sending an unambiguous message to a country in turmoil—and his armed supporters, from cops to vigilantes, hear it loud and clear.
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Foreign Policy
Why Race Matters in International Relations
7 min read · 2020-06-19 · Western dominance and white privilege permeate the field. It’s time to change that.
Reader View · Shared by 13, including Mark Kaigwa