On September 5, The New York Times’ David Brooks published a communiqué from an internet extremist. On the same day, the Prospect also received a message from this same individual.
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Google Gets the FTC to Censor Its Own Commissioner
Commissioner Rohit Chopra dissented from a fine against Google for violations of child privacy laws, but the FTC redacted his explanation of how the fine was smaller than the earnings from the violations.
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Watch Live: ‘The Stakes’ with Robert Kuttner
“A progressive appeal and a progressive candidate are needed, both to beat Trump and to reclaim America.”
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Rescuing the Soul of the Presidency
Historian Stephen Knott considers the contemporary character of the nation.
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Charles Manson as a Symbol of—Actually, Not Much
He neither represented the ’60s gone wrong, nor brought the decade to its end.
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Using College Athletes as Concussion Test Subjects Makes Nobody Safer
An NCAA/Defense Department joint research program is flawed, because it compares populations of concussion victims that are not comparable.
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An Artist Responds to Trump’s Cratering of America: A Q&A With Esteban Whiteside
In stark paintings and intense, vibrant collages, Whiteside confronts what Donald Trump has wrought and how the long arc of oppression in the American experience oozes into the lives of people of color every day.
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A Public Option Might Be Journalism’s Last Best Hope
Democratic candidates are returning en masse to Great Society–era policies, which may also hold the key to rescuing the Fourth Estate.
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Authoritarian Past and Future
Yale University professor of philosophy Jason Stanley discusses his book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.
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A Letter to Toni Morrison
Writer Kim McLarin celebrates the life and meaning of the acclaimed novelist.