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How a "Whitelash" Took America From Barack Obama to Donald Trump

Inside the Hive

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The Difficulty of Rambling With the Subtext

CNN's John Sutter says Donald Trump played the media like a fiddle with his birtherism. He argues that when people make baseless claims, they play to anxieties in order to win their loyalty. When we grant someone the platform that comes with publication, we put your words on CNN, CBS and Fox, wherever, he says. "We are exposing your ideas and your expression of them to our audiences"

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