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Murphy’s “defensive weapons” sophistry makes zero sense. By his logic, he should have no problem selling air-to-air missiles to Iran, Hamas, Russia, an…
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There's nothing new or clever about framing domestic social policy as a way to win some assumed and inevitable Cold War. Nor is it progressive to accus…
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An uptick in murders and a full-blown media panic has all but killed reform efforts. It’s important to understand this quick and cynical backlash never…
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Since Biden’s election win on Nov. 3, 2020, MSNBC hasn’t done a single segment on the world's worst humanitarian disaster.
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At the end of the day, the U.S. has to be the good guys. If we’re not, the whole power arrangement doesn't really work.
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VICE’s Cuba documentary is an object lesson in selective outrage.
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When calls for incarceration are our only vehicle for empathy, mass incarceration is inevitable.
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“Free speech” discourse without taking into account the mass subjugation of America's incarcerated population is, at best, academic navel-gazing.
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Maybe one of the networks—PBS, MSNBC, CNN—that constantly books Carville to comment on racial justice issues should ask him about his own history of ra…
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For the paper record, the speaker must be wearing an “I am a racist” t-shirt in order to call something racist.
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If there’s one thing the past 18 months have taught us, it’s that a capitalist deus ex machina will not reveal itself anytime soon.
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Every few weeks we have a new “Sputnik moment.'' Perhaps none of them are.
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