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There is a wry joke sometimes told on the Latin American left: “Why has there never been a coup in Washington, D.C.?” The answer is that there is no American Embassy there. But the insurrection on January 6, 2021, and the associated efforts to reverse Joe Biden’s victory represent the closest the United States …
Trump with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in the Oval Office on May 10Alexander Shcherbak/TASS/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The concept is straight from the Soviet playbook: Plant false information and use it to influence the attitudes of another country’s …
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Taking a cue from the White House, senators are casting the report’s devastating characterization of Biden’s mental acuity as a politically motivated hit job. Source link
Democratic Missouri Rep. Cori Bush may be headed for a defeat in this year’s primary battle amid a federal investigation and strong criticisms of her positions on the Israel-Hamas war, a new poll suggests. Bush, a member of the so-called “squad” of left-wing House Democrats, is trailing her main primary challenger, Prosecuting Attorney of …
Microsoft has a plan to use AI to create a “healthy information ecosystem” just in time for the 2024 election. A February 5 headline from Microsoft’s own site sends the signal: “Here’s how we’re working with journalists to create the newsrooms of the future with AI.” That’s the intended future: The marriage of Big Tech and Big …
Extreme curriculum being taught to the 70,000 children of service members. Source link
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday questioned why Nikki Haley’s husband wasn’t on the campaign trail, drawing sharp responses from both the former U.N. ambassador and her husband, who is currently abroad on a National Guard mission. Source link
Jeff Merkley is a progressive Democrat who has represented Oregon in the Senate since 2009. This interview has been edited and condensed. The full audio and transcript can be found at the Start Making Sense podcast. Jon Wiener: Recently you went to the Rafah border crossing, between Gaza and Egypt—it’s one of the very …
NEAL CONAN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I’m Neal Conan, in Washington. As some of you may know, this program began in the crisis that led up to what we now call the first Gulf War, in 1991, as Daniel Schorr and I anchored live coverage of briefings from the White House …