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  1. 2 hours ago

    There’s a lot of great journalism being done right now, but I worry the media, as a whole, is making American politics worse, not better. We’re being used to fracture American democracy, and I don’t think we know how to stop. and I discuss:

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Cory Booker wants to close the wealth gap by giving lower-income kids up to $50,000 to use towards wealth-building purchases like a down payment on a home or college tuition:

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  3. 3 hours ago

    "Since the height of the crack cocaine epidemic and all of the racism associated with it in the 1980s, anti-black discrimination in hiring does not appear to have changed."

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  4. 14 hours ago

    "At every point, Gandhi still upends modern assumptions, insisting on the primacy of self-sacrifice over self-interest, individual obligations over individual rights, renunciation over consumption, and dying over killing."

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  5. 15 hours ago

    I had no idea how much Saudi money was sloshing around Silicon Valley:

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  6. Oct 21

    How does McKinsey justify helping authoritarian regimes identify dissidents to target? How do the people who work for McKinsey justify continuing to do so after learning that this is something their employer does?

    . helped the Saudi government identify some of their most vocal Twitter critics. What happened next will not surprise you.
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  7. Oct 21

    Right now, a normal administration would be bragging about its economic record. The Trump administration, with weeks to go before the election, wants a fight over whether trensgender people deserve civil rights protection.

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  8. Oct 20

    Appreciate both the kind words and fair critique! One recommendation in response: the latest episode of the Reckonings podcast has a great discussion with journalist on whether "objectivity" is just the subjectivity of the powerful:

    I'm gonna be a little troll-ish here but I gotta say 1. this episode of the show with was one of my favorites. If I were 22 years old now I'd be headed to a graduate program in media studies after listening to it. But.
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  9. Oct 19

    Imagine telling a Democrat in 2000 or 2004 about the 2020 primary. It's easy to miss how far Dems have moved.

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    Oct 19

    THREAD: 1/ I spent about a month speaking with over a dozen top nuclear experts about the real risks of nuclear war—and how one might kill us all. That culminated in long piece for Here’s what I learned:

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    Oct 19

    The joke about news in 2018 just being Madlibs is old but I still didn’t see “Jesse Jackson ‘88 shirts are now wildly popular in South Korea” coming

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  12. Oct 19

    (But don't skip this piece. It's a deeply reported important look at perhaps the single most existential threat facing humanity.)

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  13. Oct 19

    Happy Friday!

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  14. Oct 19

    “We find that Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative...Democrats exhibited slight increases in liberal attitudes after following a conservative Twitter bot...[but] not statistically significant.”

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    Oct 18

    The notion among journalists that “if both sides are angry, then you’re doing something right,” has a history going back to at least the 1960s, as I write in

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    Oct 18

    The conversation between and is a must. I recommend you make time to listen to it

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    Oct 18

    Let's be clear, here: -Trump's idea of "border security" DESPERATELY NEEDS Mexico's cooperation -Mexico was already cooperating -The only way to imperil that is to yell at them

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    Oct 18

    Weapon of choice: Manchin: gun Donnelly: ax Heitkamp: hammer McCaskill: spear Nelson: phaser

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  19. Oct 18

    This is no red and blue America. There's just one America, swirling in colors, collapsing into fractals, trying to focus on its breath and not freak out or get distracted.

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    Oct 18

    Seriously this is a fantastic piece by

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