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Down to the wire

False claims of “migrant crime” echo the Ku Klux Klan’s fear mongering.

Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives? "When we refer to “political junkies,” polls are pretty much the junk."

Ta-Nehisi Coates's writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine. "I realized how similar what I was seeing was to the world my parents and grandparents were born into.”

Musk on the run

Sinclair is able to sneak its propaganda into millions of American homes, including in presidential swing states where Sinclair owns more stations than any other network by requiring its affiliates to air the right-wing stories it sends them.

Mary L. Trump on how the press covered the convention

Tech and disability, the French Murdoch, and more media flashes

A crisis moment for media