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Kushner and Loeffler: mirror images, elongated, slim-suited, self-seeking dilettantes who entered politics at the highest level because of wealth they never had to earn. Kushner gained admission to Harvard and New York University through his father’s multimillion-dollar donations, married into another fortune, became a slumlord, failed in both news
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

What if we focused our human and fiscal resources on changing power and policy to actually make society, not just our feelings, better?
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
violating election law after making large donations to the DNC (which were later returned); and Chinese-born John Huang—a DNC fundraiser and Commerce Department official in the Clinton administration—was convicted of campaign finance fraud.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
There’s record of only one reporter in the whole bunch pushing back: the late Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed (who died nine months later in a fiery, single-car crash).
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Wolfe had been an influential advocate in the 1970s
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Robert Kennedy, was murdered, along with Martin Luther King Jr. Massive riots broke out in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. National guardsmen shot demonstrators at Kent State University in 1970. In 1974, Richard Nixon resigned after a wrenching crisis. As usual, the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new one were marked by pol
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
longtime Clinton foe Jeff Gerth. He’s the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
So too we can expect the vitriol to die down when Trump leaves office and an uneasy calm to exist. Then, following the election of 2028, a new explosion, as the incoming president’s radical policies—from the standpoint of the prior half a century—come under attack. But this vitriol will be simply the surface of the deep structural changes. For the
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