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Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London, England. (Getty Images/Jack Taylor)

Journalism’s Assange problem

Kathy Kiely, Laurel Leff

This photograph taken in Paris Friday Dec. 2, 2016 shows stories from USA Daily News 24, a fake news site registered in Veles, Macedonia. An Associated Press analysis using web intelligence service Domain Tools shows that USA Daily News 24 is one of roughly 200 U.S.-oriented sites registered in Veles, which has emerged as the unlikely hub for the distribution of disinformation on Facebook. Both stories shown here are bogus. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter) (AP)

End of journalism or new beginning? Journalists need help answering fake news with the real thing

Kathy Kiely

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Money won bigly in 2016: An expert tells us how to follow the money in politics

Kathy Kiely

Delegates protesting against the TPP at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 25, 2016. (Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich)

To trade or not to trade: Party elites are maximizing corporate profit at the expense of workers

Kathy Kiely

Chris Murphy speaks on the floor of the Senate, June 15, 2016, where he launched a filibuster demanding a vote on gun control measures. (AP/Senate Television)

First step toward a safer country: America needs to destroy its cult of guns

Kathy Kiely

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Not all of 2016’s political surprises are bad: A bipartisan campaign finance reform bill shows promise

Kathy Kiely

Birthplace of the Citizens United decision (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=93109510'>Orhan Cam</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

From corporate lawyer to corporate critic: Ciara Torres-Spelliscy dissects Citizens United

Kathy Kiely

FILE -In this Dec. 17, 2014 file photo, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks about his agenda for a GOP-controlled Congress during an interview with The Associated Press on Capitol Hill in Washington. McConnell faces a nearly impossible task this election year: protecting Senate Republicans from the political upheaval of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Trump’s polar opposite in almost every way, the close-mouthed, uncharismatic 74-year-old finally got his dream job just last year and is trying to keep it, even if a Trump backlash provokes a Democratic tidal wave in November. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

No transparency in Washington: How Senate members get away with burying campaign finances

Kathy Kiely

A photo tweeted from the House by Elizabeth Esty shows Democratic members staging a sit-in "to demand action on common sense gun legislation," June 22, 2016. (Twitter/Elizabeth Esty)

The Democrats could learn from the NRA: A sit-in on the House floor is vain absent a passionate voter base

Kathy Kiely

Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders (AP/Ron Frehm/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Matt Rourke/Toby Talbot)

What’s the matter with Dem? Thomas Frank talks Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and everything in between

Kathy Kiely