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Why You Shouldn’t Vote for Libertarian Nominee Gary Johnson
Voters of all political persuasions will find something objectionable in Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson’s positions. By Tessa Stuart. [Autoplay video]
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Putting the Clinton Foundation in Context: Corruption Plain on the Face of It
"There have been hundreds of thousands of words, perhaps millions, written about the lack of performance of the Clinton Foundation in Haiti — and evidence of the ugly picture is in the fact that the best “program” the Foundation can come up with to feature after the hundreds of $millions were given after the Haiti earthquake is what I just documented — acting as a pass-through for funds to buy land for a boutique coffee company to single-source exotic coffee from one of the poorest countries on earth." By Amy Sterling Casil.
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Latour: rethinking ecological crisis from the ground down
In the title for one of his Tokyo lectures, Latour refers to this global ecological crisis as a “new climatic regime,” although elsewhere, it has become more commonly known as the Anthropocene: a proposed epoch that, as the etymology of its title suggests, points to the significant global impact that human activities have had on the Earth’s geology and ecosystems as the definitive characteristic of our current era. By Mike Sunda.
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Why scientists are losing the fight to communicate science to the public
Scientists and science communicators are engaged in a constant battle with ignorance. But that’s an approach doomed to failure, says Richard P Grant. (Aug. 23, 2016)
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Rush Limbaugh’s Ultimate Betrayal of His Audience
The talk-radio host claims that he never took Donald Trump seriously on immigration. If so, he neglected to tell his immigration obsessed listeners. By Conor Friedersdorf.
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The Surreal Politics of a Billionaire’s Tax Loophole
Hillary Clinton has gone even further than Donald Trump in promising to kill a tax break that benefits some of the wealthiest people in finance. So why are private equity titans giving all their campaign money to Clinton? By Alec MacGillis.
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How the Alt-Right Became the Party of Hate
It wasn’t a coordinated effort, and there is only one way to stop it. By T. A. Frank.
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‘Rolling Coal’ in Diesel Trucks, to Rebel and Provoke
“Coal rollers” alter their diesel trucks so they spew thick black smoke, sometimes in the direction of joggers, cyclists and hybrid cars. By Hiroko Tabuchi.
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Deep Stories
Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Journey into Trump Country.
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The Election That Mattered
The 2010 election may have pulled off the biggest political heist in modern times. David Daley, interviewed by Dave Denison.
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How We Killed the Tea Party
Greedy super PACs drained the movement with endless pleas for money to support “conservative” candidates—while instead using the money to enrich themselves. I should know. I worked for one of them. By Paul H. Jossey. (Aug. 14, 2016)
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Hillary Clinton: Candidate of War
The U.S. political/media establishment only permits the propaganda version of the Syrian conflict – and Hillary Clinton fully embraced it in her belligerent comments in the second presidential debate, writes Daniel Lazare.
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Donald Trump: Narcissist, Creep, Loser
In the hot-mic tape of Trump talking about women, it is the desperate need for validation, as much as the mere ugliness, that impresses. By Adam Gopnik. (Oct. 9, 2016)
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Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans
Trump supporters are not the caricatures journalists depict – and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong.
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Swat Team
The media's extermination of Bernie Sanders, and real reform. By Thomas Frank.
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The Virtue of an Educated Voter
The Founders believed that a well-informed electorate preserves our fragile democracy and benefits American society as a whole. By Alan Taylor.
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Going Inside Trump’s Chinese Tie Factories
A visit to the Chinese factories that made Donald Trump’s clothing brand possible. By Spencer Woodman.
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How Half Of America Lost Its F#%king Mind
I'm going to explain the Donald Trump phenomenon in three movies. And then some text. By David Wong.
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How Turned Off Are Voters? Check Out Tommy’s Diner
So here we are, nearing the end of 2016’s he-said, she-said race to the bottom. Through it all, through his ugly caricatures of Mexicans and Muslims, through her pretzel contortions to explain her emails, through the Russian hacking and the 3 a.m. Twitter rants and the rest, this was always going to be a “hold your nose and vote” election... By Sheryl Gay Stolberg.
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Apocalypse Hillary
“The ‘no fly zone’ that Clinton wants to impose over Syria would mean war with Russia from the very second it was implemented.” By Glen Ford.
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