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Shepard Smith (AP/Richard Drew)

Fox News fans believe opinions, not news

Melanie McFarland
Judy Aquiline, a Sonoma local, sits in the candle-lit restaurant Reel and Brand in Sonoma, California, on October 9, 2019, during a planned power outage by the Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) utility company. - Rolling blackouts set to affect millions of Californians began on October 9 as a utility company started switching off power to an unprecedented number of households in the face of hot, windy weather that raises the risk of wildfires. (BRITTANY HOSEA-SMALL/AFP via Getty Images)

California's blackouts are not enough

Carl Pope
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Mark Zuckerberg defends false Trump ads

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Donald Trump in front of and image of Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters on an armoured personnel carrier drive to cross the border into Syria, in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Fighting continued in a northeast Syrian border town at the center of the fight between Turkey and Kurdish forces early Friday, despite a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that went into effect overnight. (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump's epic propaganda tweets

Heather Digby Parton
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images/ AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump gives Putin a winning ticket

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
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Concussion research and the patriarchy

Nechama Moring - Undark
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Separate & unequal train service returns

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
Donald Trump (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

How conservatism can turn into fascism

Yale R. Magrass, Charles Derber
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Gorilla snacking habits raise questions

Darcy Shapiro - Massive Science
A woman arranges cooked meat at an open-front food store. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images)

The sinews between meat and capitalism

Josh Berson
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2020: Pell Grants are getting their due

Donald E. Heller - The Conversation
Democratic presidential candidates (L-R) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg at the start of the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. A record 12 presidential hopefuls are participating in the debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How Democrats can win the future

Paul Rosenberg
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"Won’t you be my neighbor?"

L. Benjamin Rolsky - The Conversation
Steven Pinker (Getty Images/Salon)

Steven Pinker and the annoying white men

Émile P. Torres
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He presents U.S. President Donald Trump with a letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping after Trump announced a "phase one" trade agreement with China in the Oval Office at the White House October 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. China and the United States have slapped each other with hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs since the current trade war began between the world’s two largest national economies in 2018. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

A tale of two trade talks

Charles Hankla - The Conversation
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Empowering kids to advocate for kids

Jessica Taft - The Conversation
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Michael Moore in "Bowling For Columbine" (Metro Goldwyn Meyer)

"Bowling for Columbine": Lessons for now

Sophia A. McClennen
President Donald Trump comes out of the Oval Office for his departure from the White House on September 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

True crimes and misdemeanors

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
Ex-Thomas Cook employees demonstrate in London on October 2, 2019, after delivering a petition calling on the Government to open a full inquiry into Thomas Cook's collapse and for the company's directors to pay back their bonuses. - British travel firm Thomas Cook collapsed on September 23, leaving hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers stranded and sparking the UK's biggest repatriation since World War II. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images) (Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images)

The empty creditor problem

Patrick Augustin, Marti G. Subrahmanyam - The Conversation
Penny pinching VS Counting stacks (Getty Images/Salon)

Will Democrats fight the wealth gap?

Chauncey DeVega
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Smoke rises from factory stacks in Santes, near Lille, on January 22, 2013. (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)

Don't count on capitalism to save Earth

Ted Morgan
Displaced Syrians arrive in the border town of Tal Abyad on October 17, 2019, as Turkey and its allies continue their assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s fake withdrawal from endless war

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies - Independent Media Institute
Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Salon)

America is held hostage by a madman

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Ind., Mayor, Pete Buttigieg (AP/Brynn Anderson)

Buttigieg steps up his game, but…

Ryan O'Connell - The Globalist
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