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Classic Who: Will the Radical War on Science Transform America?

Sometimes we run a story that has a certain message at the time of publication but it then takes on a different significance down the road. We saw this just last

January 5, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

Will Democrats Learn All the Wrong Lessons about the Working Class?

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Books trying to explain Red America are flying off the shelves, particularly to shell-shocked Democrats. As we hear in the opening sound bites of this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, JFK (and later Lyndon B. Johnson

January 6, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

Ellen Schrecker on the New McCarthyism

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This week on CounterSpin: The “what could possibly go wrong?” meme might be overused, but it’s hard not to think it, watching the government create new tools and powers for countering “disinformation” that will be handed to a president-elect who calls

January 6, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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Propaganda & Truth

After Arrest, NAACP Pres. Calls for More Civil Disobedience to Oppose Sen. Sessions as Att'y General

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Resistance to many of President-elect Trump’s Cabinet picks who face Senate confirmation hearings in the coming weeks entered a new phase Tuesday when NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and five

January 5, 2017
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Category: Justice

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NAACP President on Dylann Roof's Lack of Regret for Massacre: "It's About the State of America"

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This week Dylann Roof faces a possible death sentence for murdering nine black worshipers at the Emanuel AME Church in June of 2015. As Roof acted as his

January 5, 2017
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Category: Justice

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Racism

Type: Video

Glenn Greenwald on "Dearth of Evidence" Linking Russia to WikiLeaks Release of DNC Emails

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We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Glenn Greenwald as the Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on alleged Russian cyber-attacks and top intelligence officials are briefing President Obama on a review