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Jan 24, 2025 | 
cjr.org | Charles Kaiser
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. For two and a half decades, Paul Krugman’s columns in the New York Times were beacons of intelligence and common sense. Particularly for progressives inured to the work of many of his colleagues, Krugman offered a liberal gospel that was also a reliable refuge from mediocrity.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Kim Kelly |John Nichols |Shailly Gupta Barnes |Charles Kaiser
Politics / November 4, 2024 Sex Workers Are Trying to Warn Us About Project 2025A group of performers and activists are giving voters a clear message: Under a Trump administration, not even your porn is safe. Ad Policy Siri Dahl attends the Los Angeles premiere party for Netflix’s Money Shot: The Pornhub Story at Grandmaster Recorders on March 13, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Kim Kelly |John Nichols |Shailly Gupta Barnes |Charles Kaiser
Politics / November 4, 2024 Sex Workers Are Trying to Warn Us About Project 2025A group of performers and activists are giving voters a clear message: Under a Trump administration, not even your porn is safe. Ad Policy Siri Dahl attends the Los Angeles premiere party for Netflix’s Money Shot: The Pornhub Story at Grandmaster Recorders on March 13, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Charles Kaiser
This story was published in partnership with The Nation. When Project 2025 was first published by The Heritage Foundation in the spring of 2023, most of the legacy media ignored it. Then, last December, The New York Times reported on plans that would “upend core elements of American governance, democracy, foreign policy and the rule of law” if Donald Trump returned to the White House.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Charles Kaiser
Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.
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May 10, 2024 | 
msn.com | Charles Kaiser
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May 10, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Charles Kaiser
Writing on Substack in 2021, Nellie Bowles described some of the less attractive qualities that motivated her work as a reporter: “I love the warm embrace of the social media scrum. One easy path toward the top of the list … is communal outrage. Toss something (someone) into that maw, and it’s like fireworks. I have mastered that game. For a couple of years, that desire for attention … propelled me more than almost anything else.
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May 10, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Charles Kaiser
Democracy Dies in DarknessBooksBook Reviews Fiction Nonfiction May books 50 notable fiction books BooksBook Reviews Fiction Nonfiction May books 50 notable fiction books In ‘An Unfinished Love Story,’ the best-selling historian writes about her marriage to Richard Goodwin and the couple’s prolonged debate about the legacies of the presidents they servedReview by Charles KaiserMay 10, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EDTDoris Kearns Goodwin consults with President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office in 1968.
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May 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Charles Kaiser
Ari Berman’s new book is a rich history of America’s ambivalent attitude toward majority rule. The founding document declared “all men are created equal”, but by the time a constitution was drafted 11 years later, there was already a severe backlash to that revolutionary assertion. To prevent the union from disintegrating, free states and big states repeatedly gave in to slave states and small states, producing a constitution that would be adopted by the majority.
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May 2, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Charles Kaiser
Columbia has always had to compete with Manhattan for the loyalty of its students. Its full name is Columbia University in the City of New York, and the experience of living in America’s most cosmopolitan city frequently affects its students more deeply than anything that happens inside the classroom.
