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Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, the rightwing US computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar...
Jay Murdock
Feb 26, 201718 min read
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The White House’s radical attack on the First Amendment cannot go unanswered
Denying journalists from the Guardian, New York Times and other outlets access to a press briefing is an authoritarian move. A swift...
Jay Murdock
Feb 25, 20173 min read
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White House confirms conversation with FBI about Trump and Russia
Reince Priebus, FBI director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe had a conversation which appears to violate justice department...
Jay Murdock
Feb 24, 20174 min read
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The resistance v Trump: here are this week’s victories and losses
Team Trump have continued to ram their regressive agenda down our throats at full speed. But the resistance fought back, and had some...
Jay Murdock
Feb 24, 20173 min read
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On immigration, Trump is wilfully ignorant
By Esther Cepeda / The Washington Post / February 23, 2017 Is it just me or does anyone else get the feeling that President Trump and...
Jay Murdock
Feb 24, 20173 min read
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US private prison program rebooted by Trump administration
Jeff Sessions gave the order to revive the justice department’s use of for-profit prisons, a sharply criticized industry that Obama had...
Jay Murdock
Feb 23, 20172 min read
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Obamacare has staying power
By Eugene Robinson /Syndicate Columnist The Washington Post / February 21, 2017 WASHINGTON — What’s the holdup, House Republicans? During...
Jay Murdock
Feb 23, 20173 min read
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How America Lost Faith in Expertise
And Why That’s a Giant Problem By  Tom Nichols / Foreign Affairs The Magazine / February 23, 2017 In 2014, following the Russian invasion...
Jay Murdock
Feb 23, 201720 min read
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Donald Trump returns in triumph to CPAC – with Breitbart as supporting cast
Six years after he was loudly booed there, Trump will take the main stage as the Republican president with some new allies at the...
Jay Murdock
Feb 23, 20173 min read
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PRIDE AND POVERTY IN AMERICA: Outside coastal bubbles, to say ‘America is already great’
Beyond the bubbles of the big cities and elite college campuses is an America that values community over careers, and has faced a...
Jay Murdock
Feb 21, 20178 min read
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Here’s One Reason Why Trump’s Legislative Agenda Is Flailing
Governing requires unglamorous work. Trump has no patience for it. By Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post / February 21, 2017 President...
Jay Murdock
Feb 21, 20175 min read
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Freedom of the press isn’t guaranteed. Especially when it’s labeled the ‘enemyR
Support for the media is falling among the American public and the courts have not always protected reporters. So what is the press to do...
Jay Murdock
Feb 20, 20174 min read
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Populist correctness: the new PC culture of Trump’s America and Brexit Britain
Rightwing snowflakes are offended by everything from Kermit to holiday greetings and Starbucks cups By Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian /...
Jay Murdock
Feb 20, 20174 min read
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Chaos in the White House: ‘There’s never been anything like this’
After the fastest, most furious week yet for the Trump administration, America’s elder statesmen say they have never seen such turmoil or...
Jay Murdock
Feb 18, 20177 min read
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Trump May Thrive in Chaos, But the Presidency Cannot
By Michael Gerson / The Washington Post / February 17, 2017 WASHINGTON — In early January, Speaker Paul Ryan met on the issue of tax...
Jay Murdock
Feb 17, 20173 min read
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Donald Trump has turned evading responsibility into an art form
The reaction to the fall of National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn is just the latest example of Trump passing the buck – and...
Jay Murdock
Feb 16, 20173 min read
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Trump Hasn’t Met Pogo’s Enemy
By Albert R. Hunt / BloombergView / February 14, 2017 President Donald Trump, who prefers cable news to reading, should take a quick...
Jay Murdock
Feb 16, 20173 min read
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Lying got Michael Flynn fired. But that’s what the Trump White House does best
Despite Trump’s deformation of the truth, it seems that lying – at least to the FBI and the vice president – still has consequences...
Jay Murdock
Feb 15, 20173 min read
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Donald Trump lifts anti-corruption rules in ‘gift to the American oil lobby’
Campaigners alarmed as president expunges element of Dodd-Frank Act. Energy companies no longer need disclose payments to foreign...
Jay Murdock
Feb 14, 20172 min read
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Advice and consent — or combat?
Now we are in a cycle of revenge that imperils any Supreme Court nominee’s efforts to win confirmation By David M. Shribman / Pittsburgh...
Jay Murdock
Feb 14, 20175 min read
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