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9 years ago+17 17 0Hillary Clinton doesn’t need the media, and it’s driving the media crazy
Hillary Clinton talked to reporters for the first time in a month on Tuesday. She didn't reveal much, in part because she doesn't need the media right now.
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9 years ago+7 7 0Why race issues in “Mad Men” remained invisible, to the very end
At its core, the show was about how people that benefit from white privilege and racism suffer in ways that they’re unwilling to reconcile because of the short term benefits of privilege.
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9 years ago+13 13 0How Republican Also-Rans Spin Presidential Primary Loss into Gold
Just about everybody who runs for president doesn’t win, but that doesn't mean every candidate but one loses. There’s plenty to be had from running a competent – or even incompetent – campaign on the national stage.
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Current Event
9 years ago+2 2 0While the Media Focused on Looting in Baltimore, They Missed the Real Theft
Financial institutions have been caught charging non-whites higher interest rates for home loans based on their skin color instead of their credit history.
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9 years ago+17 17 0 x 1‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us.’
"How a group of black social-media activists built the nation's first 21st-century civil rights movement."
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Current Event
9 years ago+2 2 0Who's Afraid of Pope Francis?
On the eve of a major papal encyclical about climate change, billionaire polluters plot to destroy the Pope.
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9 years ago+2 2 0David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish
Freddie Gray, the drug war, and the decline of “real policing.”
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Current Event
9 years ago+15 15 0 x 1Baltimore and the State of American Cities
The death of Freddie Gray and the protests that have sent Baltimore teetering into bedlam are part of a national tableau of frustration.
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9 years ago+7 7 0‘Clinton Cash’ & NYT Fail to Prove Connection Between Clinton & Russian Purchase of Uranium Assets
Former Justice Department spokesman Brian Fallon demolishes a New York Times hit piece aimed at Hillary Clinton, noting several factual errors.
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9 years ago+14 15 1Gun violence costs America $229 billion a year—more than $700 for every man, woman, and child
Here's all the data the NRA doesn't want you to see.
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9 years ago+2 2 0How scientists are annotating climate reporting
Scientists with Climate Feedback are "making use of a browser plugin from the nonprofit Hypothes.is to annotate climate journalism on the Web" and rating articles based on scientific accuracy.
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9 years ago+1 1 0'Twitter is terrifying.' 5 comedians on the new realities of comedy
[W]hat kind of environment does our hyperconnected present and easily searchable past create for the world of comedy? Fusion asked five prominent comedians to weigh in.
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9 years ago+2 2 0Homeless People Read Mean Tweets About Themselves To End Stereotypes
When celebrities read mean tweets about themselves, it's funny. When homeless people do it, it's heartbreaking. In a powerful PSA by Canadian advocacy group Raising the Roof, people who are dealing with homelessness read actual tweets writ ...
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9 years ago+2 2 0The Cost of Paying Attention
"[W]e need to sharpen the conceptually murky right to privacy by supplementing it with a right not to be addressed. This would apply not, of course, to those who address me face to face as individuals, but to those who never show their faces, an ...