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Where do Newspaper Columnists Get Their Facts? Where do Newspaper Columnists Get Their Facts?

If it’s wrong, that’s just your opinion.

Mar 6, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

With His Assault on PBS and NPR, Trump Seeks to Eliminate Real News

With His Assault on PBS and NPR, Trump Seeks to Eliminate Real News With His Assault on PBS and NPR, Trump Seeks to Eliminate Real News

In much of America, PBS and NPR stations represent the primary alternative to fanaticism and fakery.

Feb 14, 2018 / John Nichols

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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

The right-wing war on objective reality.

Feb 13, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

An Appreciation of Nicholas von Hoffman

An Appreciation of Nicholas von Hoffman An Appreciation of Nicholas von Hoffman

A fond farewell to a lifelong mischief maker.

Feb 7, 2018 / Peter Pringle

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TV’s Dystopia Boom TV’s Dystopia Boom

The nightmarish future ain’t what it used to be.

Feb 1, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley

Robert Parry Obit

Remembering Investigative Journalist Robert Parry Remembering Investigative Journalist Robert Parry

What made Bob Parry a trailblazer for independent journalism also made him a bridge burner with the media establishment.

Jan 29, 2018 / Norman Solomon

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The American Bipartisan Policy Establishment Declares Its ‘Second Cold War’ vs. Russia After Years of Denying It The American Bipartisan Policy Establishment Declares Its ‘Second Cold War’ vs. Russia After Years of Denying It

The most influential US foreign-policy membership society has issued a report affirming the new Cold War and its eagerness to fight it.

Jan 24, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

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Democrats Are Repudiating FDR’s Precedent of Détente With Russia Democrats Are Repudiating FDR’s Precedent of Détente With Russia

By criminalizing alleged “contacts with the Kremlin”—and by demonizing Russia itself—today’s Democrats are becoming the party of the new and more perilous Cold War.

Jan 17, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

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Poverty Is Eliminated! Poverty Is Eliminated!

You can’t really be poor unless you literally have nothing.

Jan 11, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

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The US ‘Betrayed’ Russia, but It Is Not ‘News That’s Fit to Print’ The US ‘Betrayed’ Russia, but It Is Not ‘News That’s Fit to Print’

New evidence that Washington broke its promise not to expand NATO “one inch eastward”—a fateful decision with ongoing ramifications—has not been reported by The New York Times or o...

Jan 10, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

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