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President Donald Trump at the White House, Oct. 24, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How to cover this insane election

Dan Froomkin

Welcome to Press Watch, where we ask the really big question: Can political journalism in 2020 be less terrible?

Chick-fil-A VS Popeyes (Getty Images/Salon)

Popeyes trolls Chick-fil-A

Matthew Rozsa

Popeyes announced on Monday that it will re-release its chicken sandwich on Sunday, when Chick-fil-A is closed

Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Katie Hill and the double standard

Amanda Marcotte

Republicans helped out an abusive husband, while Democrats hold their own accountable for even minor misconduct

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on the October 28, 2019 airing of 'Morning Joe' (MSNBC)

Joe: "Lock him up" chant "un-American"

Igor Derysh

Democratic Sen. Chris Coons agrees that the "office of the president deserves respect even when the actions" don't

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland arrives at a closed session before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees October 17, 2019 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Sondland testified on Capitol Hill to testify to the committees for the ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. (Photo by (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Sondland claimed quid pro quo: lawyer

Shira Tarlo

Trump has repeatedly denied the existence of a quid pro quo related to his administration's dealings with Ukraine

Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (AFP/Getty Images/Alex Wong/Chip Somodevilla)

Trump nearly derailed Baghdadi raid

Igor Derysh

Military officials say the operation against leading ISIS figure succeeded "in spite of" Trump's actions

Trey Gowdy on Face The Nation (CBS/Face The Nation)

Trey Gowdy backs closed-door hearings

Matthew Rozsa

"You can't pick and choose which aspects of due process you're going to use,” Gowdy said as he recalled Benghazi

Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (AP Photo/Paul Sancya/Getty Images/Scott Eisen)

Sanders earns third "squad" endorsement

Shira Tarlo

"We deserve someone who writes the damn bills," Tlaib said, referencing Sanders' "Medicare for All" legislation

Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Katie Hill resigns amid ethics probe

Igor Derysh

George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty in the Mueller probe, has stoked speculation that he could run for the seat

Sen. John Kennedy, Sen. John Cornyn, Rep. Matt Gaetz, and Rep. Devin Nunes (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Don't sleep on the GOP strategy

Heather Digby Parton

Republican attacks on impeachment "process" have a clear goal in mind: Senate acquittal, followed by re-election

Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Republicans have a fantasy Constitution

Paul Rosenberg

Trump's attack on the Constitution is nothing new for the right, which has long tried to write its own version

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Acid rain, that ’70s scourge, comes back

Sarah Okeson - DCReport

After 32 years, trout breed naturally again in the Adirondacks. But the comeback may not last thanks to Trump

United States - Mexico border wall (Getty/Omar Martinez)

How to displace the great replacement

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com

It really does boil down to us versus them

People demonstrate on the seventh day of widening protests over living costs and social inequality in Santiago, on October 24, 2019. - The United Nations said Thursday it would send a special mission to investigate human rights abuses in Chile, where a general strike went into its second day following a week of street protests that left 18 dead. (MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)

A million in Chile take to streets

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams

Chile's president reportedly asks cabinet to resign, after police can't stop mass protests demanding reform

Antarctic Glacier with cavities (Getty Images/goinyk)

Tipping point closer than we thought

Nathanael Johnson - Grist

Antarctic ice sheets have been melting rapidly for hundreds of years, longer than scientists previously thought

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens as US President Donald Trump speaks about Syria in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, DC, October 23, 2019. - President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the United States would be lifting sanctions on Turkey, hailing the success of a ceasefire along its border with Syria."Earlier this morning, the government of Turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in Syria and making the ceasefire permanent," he said in a televised address from the White House. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Where’s Mike Pompeo?

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport

The Secretary of State is at the center of the Ukraine affair, but he's nowhere to be seen or heard

FILE - In this March 14, 2019, file photo students walk on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

How community college can open doors

Justin Ortagus, Xiaodan Hu - The Conversation

New research shows a small portion of community college students are able to transfer to selective schools

Aldous Huxley (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Huxley foresaw our Big Data nightmare

Ramesh Srinivasan

Those in power use mind-melting entertainment to distract us, Huxley said. Have we realized his dystopia?

Peanut Butter Cheesecake at The Cheesecake Factory (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Feeding America)

The baffling cult of Cheesecake Factory

Ashlie D. Stevens

A cultural survey of the much-derided restaurant, from "The Big Bang Theory" fakery to "Middle Class Fancy" love

(Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images)

Confusion at the fish counter

Jenny Weitzman - The Conversation

Here’s how to make a responsible choice at the fish counter.

Huevos Rancheros (Skyhorse Publishing)

This Mexican egg dish will fuel your day

Hannah Pemberton - Buddha Bowls

All hail the queen of the brunch table!

(Mark Weinberg/Food52)

The viral pomegranate hack you must try

Valerio Farris - Food52

Well ... kind of

Kathryn Hahn, "Mrs. Fletcher" (HBP)

The sexual frustration of Mrs. Fletcher

Melanie McFarland

Kathryn Hahn's new HBO seriocomic limited series is less a sexual coming-of-age than identity crisis porn

(Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images)

New potential vaping hazards scrutinized

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News

As of Oct. 15, the CDC has identified nearly 1,500 lung injuries related to vaping

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