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The Resistance?
The “resistance,” a movement ignited by the election of Trump, is for the most part Democratic, although it attracts varying degrees of Republican solidarity on certain issues. Although one might expect such a movement to resist Trump from the left, far too often it appears that the “resistance” is content to either assist in the…
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The Reality of the Fake News Hysteria
Since the 2016 election, “fake news” has become a stunningly popular topic among politicians in America and around the world. As of November 2017, the term’s usage had increased by 365 percent since 2016. Donald Trump played a major role in its popularization, with his attacks on the media often laced with the term “fake…
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Why All Drugs Should Be Legal
A woman stands on a street corner and takes out a small cylinder of a drug rolled in paper. A policeman walks by and glances over. Could this woman be in trouble? Well, that depends on whether or not the drug has been repeatedly proven to cause lung cancer, even to second-hand users. If so,…
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Screw the Discourse
For roughly the past six months, I’ve been telling everyone I know to listen to the socialist podcast Chapo Trap House. I’ve done this partially to annoy people, but mostly because it’s great, equal parts incisive and laugh-out-loud hilarious. Many of my more moderate friends—and certainly my conservative ones—will be skeptical. Rapidly increasing partisanship has…
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News Does Not Need 24 Hours
In middle school, I spent most of my weekend mornings watching Sports Center. The show would last for one hour, and then start up again with a repeat of the same show. Each day, it presented highlights and scores of the previous day’s games and discussion of the current day’s sporting events. ESPN would use…
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Our Deranged Media
Even though it has been over two months since the Inauguration, and even longer since Election Day, the sight of Donald Trump in the White House still feels like a dream – or, more aptly, a nightmare. That a man so manifestly unqualified for the office of the presidency and so obviously uninterested in its…
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Media Shmedia
The 2016 presidential election has been broadcast across all media thanks to the technological advances of the new digital age. News is no longer limited to print and television; social media outlets, like Twitter and Facebook, and global networks, like Buzzfeed and YouTube, are increasingly relevant. Traditional news is quickly losing touch with viewers—especially young…
