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Time Travel in Fiction

November 3, 2017

How time travel functions in popular movies and books – not the time machines, but how it affects the characters’ timelines. With appearances by Planet of the Apes, Harry Potter, Back to the Future, Groundhog Day, and more.

John Kelly Has Lost the Benefit of the Doubt

November 3, 2017

This was no innocent mistake. White House Chief-of-Staff John Kelly slandered a Congresswoman, and he meant to do it.

Silicon Valley Answers to Congress Amid the Russia Probe

November 3, 2017

Congress lays into the heads of major tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to find out how Russia used social media to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

November 3, 2017

Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC

Donna Brazile Politico

When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign.

November 3, 2017

Carter’s Bold Bid to Make Peace Between Trump and North Korea

Miles Mogulescu Campaign for America's Future

It’s in our interest to negotiate, to ratchet down tensions that could lead to an accidental nuclear or conventional war

November 3, 2017

Eduardo Galeano, Monster Wanted

Eduardo Galeano TomDispatch

The most dramatic and beautiful of writers who caught history -- the history of continents and of half-forgotten figures who struggled for what truly mattered -- in a unique fashion, in passages of hardly a page or more.

November 3, 2017

How the Trump Family Benefits From the Republican Tax Scheme

David Cay Johnston DC Report

They will pay much less while your family could pay much more

November 3, 2017

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Behzad Molavi Rattle

Tuesday is Election Day: the Iranian poet Behzad Molavi reminds us what to do.