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Election 2024
Posted inPolitics
The Problems With Biden
He has to dig himself out of three holes if he has any chance to beat Donald Trump.
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Metaphors Journalists Live By (Part II)
The conclusion of our story of the bad things that can happen when journalists refuse to criticize themselves
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Metaphors Journalists Live By (Part I)
One of the reasons political journalism is so ill-equipped for this moment in America is because of its stubborn adherence to outdated frames.
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Trump Wins Iowa, Sun Rises in East
An aging, distempered electorate votes for their favorite aging, distempered candidate.
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The Left Behind
The cultural rifts between urban and rural America are a constant of our history. When they also become economic, they become dangerous.
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Connecting Civil Rights to Economic Rights
Today on TAP: Dr. King did that superbly. Can President Biden?
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President Biden’s Speech to Black Americans Won’t Bring Them Home—Yet
Is it time for Biden to be Biden?
Posted inTAP
How About Those Factories?!
Today on TAP: Americans, it turns out, want to revive domestic manufacturing. Advantage, Biden.
