As mainstream publications cut jobs, heavily subsidized right-wing agitprop is filling the gap.
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Nonviolence From a Military Angle
A new history of the civil rights movement gets a lot right but falls short in trying to reframe the story.
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Altercation: Bibi and Donald, Growing Even Worse
Illiberal leaders, by inclination and also in hopes of avoiding the slammer
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⏩ Do Veterans Need a New Agenda in Washington?
A discussion of issues affecting veterans and why progressives should pay more attention to veterans affairs
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Cyborgs on the Highways
A new book details the extreme forms of surveillance imposed on long-haul truckers, robbing them of their power.
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Altercation: Here’s What’s Really Behind the News
Some serious scholarship (and some Springsteen and Sinatra)
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The Corruption of the Legal Profession
A new book shows how corporate law firms bear great responsibility for the degradation of the rule of law.
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Altercation: The American—and Jewish—Divide Over Israel
My new book analyzes the 55-year-old rift, now grown to a chasm, in which the right’s remaking of and romance with Israel has detached young U.S. Jews from organized Judaism.
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Altercation: Wenner Fake All (Well, Much)
The newly released memoir from Rolling Stone’s guiding genius isn’t where you’d go for facts, as such, but if there were a Pulitzer for name-dropping, it’d win going away.
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Altercation: At the Movies
Two new films brilliantly depict the increasingly embattled craft of journalism.