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November 9, 2019

Fighting the Aggressive Voter Purges Planned Across the South

Benjamin Barber Facing South

Stacey Abrams, founder of Fair Fight Action.

Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recently announced a voter purge of 330,000 people that could affect the 2020 elections. Voting rights activists are rallying to fight this and other similar purges throughout the South.

November 9, 2019

The Pressure of Storytelling: Refugee Stories Could Do More Harm Than Good

Rifaie Tammas OpenDemocracy

An Afghani refugee poses for a photo with his daughter.

Refugees are expected to share and curate their stories, but this can do more harm than good. The pressure of storytelling can leave refugees feeling disempowered, and there is often the expectation that refugees owe the wider public their stories.

November 8, 2019

Friday Nite Videos | November 8, 2019

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Bernie Sanders on Socialism, Taxes and Criminal CEOs. NYC Bids Adieu to Donald Trump (In Song). Trump and GOP Allies Try to Out Ukraine Whistleblower. AI Learns to Play Hide and Seek. Voting Machines.

Bernie Sanders on Socialism, Taxes and Criminal CEOs

November 8, 2019

Bernie Sanders, in a wide-ranging chat with CNBC’s John Harwood, discusses personal issues, his economic agenda and his hope to become a 21st century version of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

NYC Bids Adieu to Donald Trump (In Song)

November 8, 2019

Start spreading the news: Trump's leaving today!

Trump and GOP Allies Try to Out Ukraine Whistleblower

November 8, 2019

Seth takes a closer look at the president and his allies trying to out the Ukraine whistleblower while one of Trump’s own appointees admits there was a quid pro quo.

AI Learns to Play Hide and Seek

November 8, 2019

Agents discover progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. This suggests that multi-agent co-adaptation may one day produce extremely complex and intelligent behavior.

Voting Machines

November 8, 2019

John Oliver discusses how voting machines work, how they don’t, and how we can fix them.

November 8, 2019

Three Words Trump Wanted: "Biden," "Clinton," "Investigation"

Tom McCarthy The Guardian

Senior state department official George Kent says the president had a very specific demand for his Ukrainian counterpart, to be delivered at a press conference

November 8, 2019

Stone Trial: Trump May Have Lied to Robert Mueller

Dan Friedman and David Corn Mother Jones

“The truth looked bad for the Trump campaign and the truth looked bad for Donald Trump.”