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It's the Corruption (and the Incompetence), Stupid
Well, that aged well. But you (and everybody else) knew that it would. In Sunday’s newsletter, I wrote:
The cynics among us are waiting to see what happens on Monday, because this feels like a plot from a dystopian novel: A war that only...
A War Fought on Weekends
The Great State fair. A Bust for the Ages. © TheWrap
Four stories to start your Sunday:
(1) Just days after Trump’s Peace in Our Time, we’re back to this: “Trump threatens Iran with annihilation; Kuwait, Bahrain report attacks”
The cynic...
A Modest Suggestion for Texas's Bible-Study
News item: “Texas will require students to read Bible passages in a new state curriculum” -NPR
Texas students will be required to read Bible passages and learn about the role of Christianity in the state's history under new reading lists...
Trump Is Sabotaging the American Idea
Jamil Smith is a columnist at The Guardian and a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In this episode, he joins me to discuss what America's upcoming 250th birthday means to us, the latest Supreme Court decisions and t...
Zelizer & Sykes: Trump Tries to Hijack the Nation's Birthday
In which I admit to having mixed feelings about this Fourth of July, but argue that we can’t let Trump steal the symbols and traditions of America. It’s our damn flag, not his. It’s our country, not his.
We also talk about Trump’s legislat...
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