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Physical Infidelity Acceptable, Virtual Infidelity, Not So Much

by Joe Cutbirth | Aug 26, 2013 | Politics

(Illustration: Edel Rodriguez) July 23 was the kind of day journalists who work for the brash New York tabloids—and their increasingly tough internet and cable TV competitors—live for. Disgraced-congressman-turned-mayoral-frontrunner Anthony Weiner had called a late-afternoon news conference at a vacant office in Chelsea and confirmed reports that he had continued to send lewd photos of […]

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Why Can’t Democracy Trump Inequality?

by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 26, 2013 | Economy

(Sheldon Adelson | Cource: Wikipedia) Fifty years ago, Americans lived in a society that had been growing—and had become—much more equal. In 1963, of every $100 in personal income, less than $10 went to the nation’s richest 1 percent. Americans today live in a land much more unequal. The nation’s top 1 percent are taking […]

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When Yellow Journalism Becomes Burnt Sienna

by | Aug 26, 2013 | Politics

Whatever your preference in the New York mayoralty, you’ve been treated in the past 24 hours to a textbook takedown of Bill De Blasio by the paper of record. Whether as suspected the Times, like the Washington Post, is sold soon for peanuts won’t matter in the upcoming Democratic primary, as the newspaper weighed in […]

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Ted Cruz, Presidential Extremist

by Lou Dubose | Aug 21, 2013 | Politics

(Source: Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com) If there is a story that is not news but a distraction, it is the “Oh, Canada” revelation that Ted Cruz is a citizen of Canadian as well as a citizen of the United States. Unsurprisingly, Cruz has renounced his Canadian citizenship. If there is any news value in this story, […]

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The Fine Lines Between Populist Libertarianism, White-Identity Politics and Treason

by | Aug 20, 2013 | Politics

(Rand Paul | Source: Creative Commons) Rand Paul’s principled stance against the National Security Agency’s domestic spying (he’s called its overreach “fundamentally unconstitutional“) has lifted his presidential prospects—even as the mainstream of the GOP, which New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is also vying to represent, remains considerably more hawkish than he is. Christie has characterized […]

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Bad Faith Documentary

Bad Faith

“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns

Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones

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“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024”Variety

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