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Dec 20, 2024 • 28min

Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime

Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”
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Dec 13, 2024 • 28min

Iman Abid on Israeli Genocide

While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnesty’s report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isn’t.
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Dec 6, 2024 • 28min

Arlene Martinez on Amazon Misconduct, Neil deMause (2019) on Amazon HQ Fight

When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the country’s national newspapers, it’s a conflict writ large as can or should be.
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Nov 29, 2024 • 28min

Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib Verdict

A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called “exceptional in every sense of the term.”
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Nov 22, 2024 • 28min

Amos Barshad on Legalized Sports Betting

Legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors—but how does it affect states, communities, people?
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Nov 15, 2024 • 28min

Adam Johnson on Charlottesville March (2017), Jacinta Gonzalez on Criminalizing Immigration (2018)

If we're to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump's agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration.
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Nov 8, 2024 • 28min

Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on Placing Blame for Trump

We talk about what just happened, and corporate media’s role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas.
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Nov 1, 2024 • 28min

Nicole Foy on Immigration and Labor

News media start with the premise of immigration itself as a “crisis,” with the only debate around how to "stem" or "control" it.
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Oct 25, 2024 • 28min

Shawn Musgrave, Orion Danjuma on Vote Fraud Hoax as Voter Suppression

Trump’s “Big Lie” attorneys are not so much returning to the field, but actually never left.
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Oct 18, 2024 • 28min

Chip Gibbons on Gaza First Amendment Alert

Defending Rights & Dissent has started a project called the Gaza First Amendment Alert, which is going to come out every other Wednesday.

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