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Like the New Yorker, but readable.
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The problem isn’t that places like Iowa are inherently “red,” and Democrats just can’t win them. The problem is that the party keeps running bland centrist nonentities who are only marginally different from the Republicans they run against.
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Only a Failing System Could Produce Chuck Grassley
One of the most powerful people in Congress is a 92-year old Iowan who’s obsessed with Dairy Queen, his vacuum cleaner, and ruining the lives of his constituents. So why haven’t the Democrats beaten h...
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this is what you get for promoting illegal regime change wars!
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NYT continues its long history of publishing op-eds pushing criminal wars of aggression
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When Chuck Grassley was born in 1933, Hitler and Stalin were both still alive, and the chocolate chip cookie had not yet been invented. When he was first elected to the Iowa state legislature in 1958, segregation and Jim Crow were still in full effect.
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Only a Failing System Could Produce Chuck Grassley
One of the most powerful people in Congress is a 92-year old Iowan who’s obsessed with Dairy Queen, his vacuum cleaner, and ruining the lives of his constituents. So why haven’t the Democrats beaten h...
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Did you know that, right now, the person who sits third in line to the U.S. presidency is a deeply strange 92-year-old from Iowa?
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Only a Failing System Could Produce Chuck Grassley
One of the most powerful people in Congress is a 92-year old Iowan who’s obsessed with Dairy Queen, his vacuum cleaner, and ruining the lives of his constituents. So why haven’t the Democrats beaten h...
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/only-a-failing-system-could-produce-chuck-grassley
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One of the most powerful people in Congress is a 92-year old Iowan who’s obsessed with Dairy Queen, his vacuum cleaner, and ruining the lives of his constituents. So why haven’t the Democrats beaten him yet?
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Only a Failing System Could Produce Chuck Grassley
One of the most powerful people in Congress is a 92-year old Iowan who’s obsessed with Dairy Queen, his vacuum cleaner, and ruining the lives of his constituents. So why haven’t the Democrats beaten h...
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The human condition has benefitted immensely from civilizations with diverse populations looking beyond religion, race, or creed. The condition of all sentient beings will be similarly transformed if we expand the circle beyond species.
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The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
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Two species working together can achieve things that each species alone could never hope to achieve. And that is what expanding the circle promises: a world where all animals can direct our will towards the collective good.
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The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
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The idea of animals and humans working together might seem like a biblical fantasy. Yet consider that the domestication of animals has already become among the most successful collaborations, in terms of planetary biomass, in Earth’s history.
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The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
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Virtually every time a writer or thinker tries to list the ways in which modern society will be condemned by future generations, animal rights is at the top of the list.
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The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
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Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
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The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-coming-revolution-for-animal-rights
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John Fugelsang explains how the Christian right betrays everything that Jesus ever preached.
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This is the Tehran Times propaganda model. The culture pages are actually quite good. The journalism is largely unremarkable. And the really diabolical stuff is in the op-ed pages. Does that sound familiar? It’s how the New York Times operates, too.
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Reading the Dictators’ Newspapers
The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
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If the Tehran Times is anything to go by, the paper’s readers probably know more about great American books and movies than the average American does, while we know nothing about their country’s cultural output.
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Reading the Dictators’ Newspapers
The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
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The basic propaganda model we’ve seen in Pyongyang has two modes: rage-inducing denunciations of designated enemies, and banal fluff that placates the regime. Then, open the website of Newsmax, a favorite network for U.S. Republicans. What do we find?
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Reading the Dictators’ Newspapers
The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading-the-dictators-newspapers
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The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
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Reading the Dictators’ Newspapers
The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading-the-dictators-newspapers
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We’re offering a free e-book edition of The Silencing of Me as a thank-you to all of our readers! If you’re bored of wealthy men complaining about their persecution, we think you will find it entertaining. 🦩 Sign up for our free newsletter to get a copy!
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In her poetry, written in exile from Havana, Assata said it best. “You can spy on the grass. You can lock up the grass. You can mow it down, temporarily. But you will never keep it from growing.” No one can stop the rain. Not even the fascists can.
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No One Can Stop the Rain
Reflections on Assata Shakur, her life and death, and what she means today.
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While it is a common myth that the Black Panther Party were gun-toting, America-hating Black supremacists who spewed hate and division, they were really Marxists, anti-capitalists, and believed in the liberation of all peoples.
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No One Can Stop the Rain
Reflections on Assata Shakur, her life and death, and what she means today.
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When we speak of Assata Shakur, her recent passing, and her legacy, we speak of someone who, at great cost, refused to let the state define who and what she was.
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No One Can Stop the Rain
Reflections on Assata Shakur, her life and death, and what she means today.
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Reflections on Assata Shakur, her life and death, and what she means today.
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No One Can Stop the Rain
Reflections on Assata Shakur, her life and death, and what she means today.
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As Harris tacked right on foreign policy, immigration, and climate change, liberals were insisting that “the centrism is working.” It wasn’t. It was deflating enthusiasm as voters realized Harris stood for nothing except her right to succeed her boss.
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Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped
In her new book, Kamala Harris insists she only lost the election because she didn’t have enough time. But she accidentally demonstrates the real reason: she’s a terrible politician.
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Even now, with an entire book at her disposal, Harris does not bother to address the concerns of disillusioned voters, nor does she seem to realize that her repellent refusal to break with Biden over the genocide was an important factor in her loss.
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Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped
In her new book, Kamala Harris insists she only lost the election because she didn’t have enough time. But she accidentally demonstrates the real reason: she’s a terrible politician.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/kamala-harriss-memoir-shows-exactly-why-her-campaign-flopped
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Like most liberals and Democrats, Harris assumed Gaza would not matter to enough voters. In 2016 Dearborn voted 63% for Clinton. In 2024, Harris got 36%, while Trump got 43%. Meanwhile, Rashida Tlaib won her seat by 63%.
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Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped
In her new book, Kamala Harris insists she only lost the election because she didn’t have enough time. But she accidentally demonstrates the real reason: she’s a terrible politician.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/kamala-harriss-memoir-shows-exactly-why-her-campaign-flopped
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The Harris campaign thought that all of this pandering to a presumed youth demographic would result in votes. But when you are struggling to pay rent, being told that a politician “is brat” is unlikely to convince you to vote for them.
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Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped
In her new book, Kamala Harris insists she only lost the election because she didn’t have enough time. But she accidentally demonstrates the real reason: she’s a terrible politician.
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Kamala Harris seemed overawed by celebrities and less inclined to hone her political messages for a larger audience of voters, many of whom were clearly yearning to be heard. She often emerges as a starstruck fan more than an assured politician.
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Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped
In her new book, Kamala Harris insists she only lost the election because she didn’t have enough time. But she accidentally demonstrates the real reason: she’s a terrible politician.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/kamala-harriss-memoir-shows-exactly-why-her-campaign-flopped
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A campaign that raked in over a billion dollars, the support of celebrities like Oprah, a popular vice presidential candidate, a huge boost in the polls once she stepped into the campaign… and, yet, somehow, her loss is still anyone’s fault but her own.
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Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped
In her new book, Kamala Harris insists she only lost the election because she didn’t have enough time. But she accidentally demonstrates the real reason: she’s a terrible politician.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/kamala-harriss-memoir-shows-exactly-why-her-campaign-flopped
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Kamala Harris probably would have been elected president if she had less time, not more, and she was and remains an obdurately bad politician with very little vision—only an abiding and deeply petulant sense that she deserved the presidency no matter what.
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Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped
In her new book, Kamala Harris insists she only lost the election because she didn’t have enough time. But she accidentally demonstrates the real reason: she’s a terrible politician.
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In her new book, Kamala Harris insists she only lost the election because she didn’t have enough time. But she accidentally demonstrates the real reason: she’s a terrible politician.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/kamala-...
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Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped
In her new book, Kamala Harris insists she only lost the election because she didn’t have enough time. But she accidentally demonstrates the real reason: she’s a terrible politician.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/kamala-harriss-memoir-shows-exactly-why-her-campaign-flopped
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The libertarian propaganda series is back and worse than ever.
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The Tuttle Twins Learn Incredibly Wrong History Lessons
The libertarian propaganda series is back and worse than ever.
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what if by LOSING we're actually WINNING
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The collapse in Democratic support for Israel really is stunning. By July of this year only EIGHT percent of Democrats supported Israel's actions in Gaza.
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It has never been more clear that centrist Democrats are dishonest, cowardly, and complicit in Trump's fascism. The Bernie Sanders model is still the path forward, just as it was in 2016.
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The Case for Centrism Does Not Hold Up
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Chuck Schumer has failed utterly. In any functional organization, a leader who had failed as often and badly as Schumer would have been ousted long ago. If the party is to have a future, it needs to rid itself of the burden of this man’s weak leadership.
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Why Is This Man In Charge of Anything?
Chuck Schumer, the feckless Democratic Senate leader, embodies everything about the party that needs to be jettisoned if they are going to be popular and effective.
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Chuck Schumer has long been a leading enabler of Israeli war crimes. He has publicly said there is no peace in Palestine because Palestinians “don’t believe in the Torah” and has even attacked Donald Trump from the right on issues of war and peace.
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Why Is This Man In Charge of Anything?
Chuck Schumer, the feckless Democratic Senate leader, embodies everything about the party that needs to be jettisoned if they are going to be popular and effective.
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Schumer’s political instincts are terrible. He was the one who infamously declared that Democrats would win in 2016 by losing their blue-collar voters while picking up “moderate Republicans.” His idea of resistance is to send Trump “very strong letters.”
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Why Is This Man In Charge of Anything?
Chuck Schumer, the feckless Democratic Senate leader, embodies everything about the party that needs to be jettisoned if they are going to be popular and effective.
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The shutdown fiasco is so embarrassing for Schumer that he is facing new calls for his resignation. But Schumer has always been a symbol of Democratic uselessness. He embodies the party’s worst tendencies and was always a bad choice to serve as leader.
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Why Is This Man In Charge of Anything?
Chuck Schumer, the feckless Democratic Senate leader, embodies everything about the party that needs to be jettisoned if they are going to be popular and effective.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-is-this-man-in-charge-of-anything
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Chuck Schumer, the feckless Democratic Senate leader, embodies everything about the party that needs to be jettisoned if they are going to be popular and effective.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-is-...
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Why Is This Man In Charge of Anything?
Chuck Schumer, the feckless Democratic Senate leader, embodies everything about the party that needs to be jettisoned if they are going to be popular and effective.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-is-this-man-in-charge-of-anything
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It has never been more clear that centrist Democrats are dishonest, cowardly, and complicit in Trump's fascism. The Bernie Sanders model is still the path forward, just as it was in 2016.
youtu.be/KNQ_5dbByI0
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The Case for Centrism Does Not Hold Up
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