"It's really important to remember why we are talking about school boards at all: because it's about white supremacy," says Jeffrey Toobin. That's how Youngkin wins.
A business model where outrage is exploited for clicks describes both social media and the news media.
The mainstream media's fear of Mark Zuckerberg is not supported by the documents.
Patiently waiting for senators and whistleblowers to freak out over this
Would you risk your life to write off your loans?
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Police are still pushing this discredited scare, but it seems fewer people are falling for it.
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When you are already convinced a policy makes sense, any evidence will do.
With minimal debate, Selective Service was doubled in a "must-pass" $778 billion defense bill.
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Media persists in pediatric scare stories even while the country's largest dataset shows tiny yet still-declining rates, including among the needlessly quarantined.
Still, Facebook should not have allowed its VIPs to flout the rules it claimed applied to everyone.
Political class rallies behind making the infrequently used recall mechanism more difficult to deploy
"You have the option to not get vaccinated if you want," said the doctor. "But then you can't go out in public."
Some people are self-medicating with a dubious COVID-19 treatment, but they aren't overwhelming doctors and nurses.
If all sensible people agree that students should be forced to wear masks, why do other countries reject that policy?
"The pandemic's wrongest man" can likely profit from martyrdom.
Eighteen months into the pandemic, news outlets are still selling sensationalism and burying context
A new analysis reportedly showing a huge proportion of TikTok content is racist tells us nothing about the overall prevalence of extremist and bigoted content on the app.
The unexpectedly acrimonious search for a new host is undermining Alex Trebek's legacy.
If so, public health officials have compounded the problem with disingenuous arguments, dubious policy shifts, and misleading statements.
Talk about encouraging vaccine hesitancy.
The man was actually calling for Dinger, the team's mascot.
The suggestion that a person can't make any reasonable guesses about his own likelihood of survival is misleading.
Recycling a government press release is not good journalism.
Federal officials invited alarmist press coverage of breakthrough infections.
In Virginia, the breakthrough hospitalization rate is 0.0032 percent and the breakthrough death rate is 0.0009 percent.
The administration is dismayed by the alarmist news coverage it invited.
The existence of politically biased websites is not a crisis.
A bad response from the magazine's parental advice column
How a debate about COVID-19's origins exposed a dangerous hubris
For decades, Western apologists downplayed the horrific consequences of China’s reproductive restrictions..
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The CNN host reportedly blamed the governor's troubles on "cancel culture."
The surprising move raises concerns about academic freedom.
The paper gives short shrift to evidence that vaccines nearly eliminate the risk of infection.
There are many other people who deserve such mercy.
The media fell in love with her. But there's little to her claims.
California Democrats and journalists are suddenly concerned about expensive government.
The paper let linguist John McWhorter use the racial slur he was discussing but felt a need to explain that decision.
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When government doesn't deliver, voters look for unpolished candidates from outside government. Go figure.
A new RAND analysis shows how difficult it is to answer basic questions about this rare variety of homicide.
By invoking the magic of good intentions, the Times justifies the U.S. acting like Russia and China.
From "power poses" to the self-esteem movement to implicit bias tests, we want to believe one small tweak will solve our problems, says Jesse Singal.
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