Mar 26, 2019The sins we bury are at the core of Jordan Peele's 'Us'
Not too long ago, I went out with a friend I hadn’t seen in a while to meet some people she knew at a club. It was a cold night, like see-your-own-breath freezing cold, and as we left to pile into a car, a homeless man with a shopping cart approached the group. I pulled out the little bit...
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Mar 26, 2019Daily Kos Science: Theory suggests that sound waves generate 'negative gravity'
In 2018, a trio of researchers at Columbia University proposed that sound waves—just ordinary sound waves—might generate negative gravity. That theory, covered at the website phys.org, has to do with something called a “phonon.” The phonon (not photon) is a concept from quantum...
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Mar 26, 2019Does the 2020 Democratic primary really need a pair of political doppelgangers from Colorado?
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is reportedly considering jumping into the 2020 Democratic presidential primary within a month. That’s his decision, and if he really wants to run, it’s his right. But ... why?
There are lots of reasons a person might run for president, with ambition and ego...
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Mar 26, 2019New study shows connection between increasing minimum wage and lower suicide rates
The movement to raise the minimum wage across our country has always been a practical one. There are tons of Americans working minimum wage jobs that do not provide nearly enough money to support them or their families. The newly elected Democratic-majority House has introduced a proposal to...
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Mar 26, 20192017 recording reveals the oil industry is dangerously intimate with Trump's EPA and Interior
A shocking recording reveals just how deep some oil industry execs believe their ties to Donald Trump’s administration go. Released by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, the hourlong chronicle of a meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) offers a...
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Mar 26, 2019Mixing Drama & Drinks: Tennessee Williams
Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock PhotoIn 1940, famed playwright Tennessee Williams found himself marooned at the Hotel Costa Verde in Acapulco, Mexico. He was awaiting the arrival of an advance royalty check from the Theatre Guild for his play Battle of Angels. The money was “mysteriously...
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Mar 26, 2019#Resistance Twitter Stars Are Not Done Investigating Trump, Even if Mueller Is
Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/GettySpecial Counsel Robert Mueller’s team of top investigators looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election have wrapped up their work. And on Sunday, Attorney General William Barr sent a summary of the report to Congress,...
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Mar 26, 2019Supreme Court Conservatives Ready to Unleash Unchecked Partisan Gerrymandering
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyThis week, the Supreme Court will hear two cases about partisan gerrymandering. The conventional wisdom is that the gerrymanderers will win.Why? Mostly because of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.You’ve probably seen the maps: voting districts that...
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Mar 26, 2019Google Snubbed the Pentagon—but Not the Chinese Military
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyGeneral Joseph Dunford, America’s top military officer, has announced he will be meeting with Google representatives this week to talk about the company’s assistance to China’s People’s Liberation Army. Dunford, chairman of the Joint...
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Mar 25, 2019The Supreme Court Could Green-Light Extreme Partisan Gerrymandering
In 2016, after the Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature drew maps that segregated black voters into heavily majority-minority districts, a federal court ruled that two of the states’s congressional districts were illegally racially gerrymandered. When Republicans redrew the...
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Mar 25, 2019Michael Avenatti Indicted for Attempting to Extort Nike for More Than $20 Million
Federal prosecutors in New York have charged Michael Avenatti with attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike by threatening to release damaging information about the company. “On or about March 20, 2019, Avenatti and CC-1 spoke by telephone with attorneys for Nike, during which...
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Mar 24, 2019Trump Aided and Abetted Russia’s Attack. That Was Treachery. Full Stop.
On Sunday afternoon Attorney General William Barr sent a letter to Congress noting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference...
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Mar 21, 2019Note to Donald Trump and Company: Lower Your Voices. Stop Playing With Matches.
If there is something we won’t soon forget in our turbulent era, it is the image of massive California brushfires enveloping hundreds of square miles of land in the Golden State and everything situated on that bone-dry landscape. The smoke was so severe that people with respiratory problems...
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Mar 8, 2019Donald Trump And The Need To Protect The Asterisk
Ever since the explosive Access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump’s “grab ’em by the p*ssy” remark was revealed a few weeks before the 2016 presidential election, the asterisk has been used in deference to the sensibilities of polite company that might read and be offended by the Fifth...
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Mar 2, 2019Jim Jordan, Your Emmy Award Awaits
When the Emmy Awards are announced next season, some pol watcher pros might predict, an Ohio congressman will certainly win in a category which he seems to dominate. And the envelope, please… The Emmy for the Worst Performance in a Continuing Role goes to … Jim Jordan of...
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Mar 26, 2019The President Has Not Been Exonerated
John Nichols
In addition to demanding the release of the Mueller report, Congress must examine actions by William Barr that call into question the AG's objectivity.
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Mar 25, 2019Guarding the Southern Border Has Become an Exercise in Cruelty
William deBuys
Twelve ways in which Trump’s wall will only add to our border crisis.
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Mar 25, 2019Centrists Are Using Calls for Civility to Silence the Left
Robert L. Borosage
Nobody should fight in the gutter, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a vigorous debate about policy.
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Mar 25, 2019No, the Media Didn’t Over-Hype ‘Russiagate’
Joshua Holland
No human being on Earth has done more to keep the Trump-Russia narrative in the news than Donald Trump.
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Mar 26, 2019GOP governor criticizes Trump's 'dangerous rhetoric' about the media
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Monday criticized what he described as President Trump's "dangerous rhetoric" about the news media, telling a crowd of reporters that they are "not the enemy of the people."...
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Mar 26, 2019Avenatti released from jail on $300,000 bond
Attorney Michael Avenatti was released Monday evening from jail on $300,000 bond, according to multiple reports.Avenatti did not enter a plea during a court appearance Monday, ...
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