Two public-health (and democracy-health) menaces duke it out.
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Altercation: Toying With Treason
A short history of Republicans’ long history of selling out the U.S. to help them win the White House
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Altercation: The Myth of Those Lazy UI Recipients
A Wall Street Journal story demonstrates how not to prove that unemployment benefits deter job-seeking.
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Altercation: Fox News Keeps Getting Foxier
Like right-wing politicians, they’re primarily interested in catering to the most extreme parts of their base.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Altercation: Race, Vietnam, and the New Left in Mid-Century
George Scialabba discusses the limits of Louis Menand’s new tome on America in the Cold War era.
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Altercation: Why Journalism Isn’t Really Covering the Threat of Fascism
Objectivity has no bias in favor of the truth.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Altercation: The Piketty Impact
On the economic-inequality discussion, profound. On capitalism per se, not so much.
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Altercation: Court Says Bill Barr Lied. Why Didn’t the Media?
Also, who quotes Elliott Abrams as an authority on human rights?
