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In 2017 MSNBC ran 1,385 broadcasts on Russia and its political meddling. I wonder what the average Honduran today thinks about U.S. corporate media’s obsessive coverage of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Nike and Kaep; Confederacy North; Wages of #MeToo; SCOTUS bait and switch; Chapo Chaps; Requiem for The Voice

Some 425 Chicago public school students died between the 2013-14 and 2016-17 school years. One in four attended an alternative high school, though these schools accounted for only around 2 percent of the district’s enrollment.

When this tracker was launched, we had 96 entries, almost two attempts to silence science each week during the 14 months after President Trump was elected. Since then, the Trump administration’s attacks on science have accelerated.

An impeccably researched account of how Blacks and Latinos are denied the right to vote.

Over the course of at least three secret meetings that happen abroad, an American diplomat established a back channel with these dissident officers.

With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law.

The realization of Palestinian rights may be a marathon, but right now, it is also a sprint. The race is on, to be made to vanish or to be seen and heard.

Austerity prevails in the West because three powerful political tribes champion it.

The authoritarian snoops of the last century would have drooled over the surveillance uses of the smartphones that most of us now carry. Smartphones have, in fact, become one of the primo law enforcement tools other than the Internet.