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If reality television began as a crude simulacrum of real life, today the opposite can feel true — that actual life is approximating reality television, and we’ve all been conscripted as cast members. The contagion has leaked from the lab.

Why did so many journalists describe the debate similarly? Matt Taibbi, a popular commentator who has migrated from liberal-hating leftist to liberal-hating Trump apologist, suggests the entire news media was taking orders from the Democratic Party.

If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins in November, his next administration comes armed with plans for a massive deregulation of federally-owned public land—your land, our land, the basis of our shared national identity.

We spoke with Uncommitted movement cofounder Abbas Alawieh about the movement’s accomplishments at the DNC, the disaster of a Trump presidency for Palestine, and Uncommitted’s vision to change the Democratic Party’s support for slaughter in Gaza.