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Christina Animashaun/Vox Postmodernism predicted our post-truth hellscape. Everyone still hates it. I was watching CNN’s Reliable Sources a couple of weeks ago and was struck by an exchange between host Brian Stelter and Andrew Marantz, author of Antisocial, a new book about online extremism. They were discussing the false narratives surrounding President Trump and whyContinue reading “The post-truth prophets”

Democratic presidential candidate US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) participates in a Presidential Candidates Forum at the NAACP 110th National Convention on July 24, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan.  | Bill Pugliano/Getty Images A per-employee fee is more popular than a payroll or income tax. Elizabeth Warren wants to finance a single-payer health care system by, inContinue reading “One advantage of Elizabeth Warren’s employer health fee plan: It polls well”

The ultimate spin-machine challenge. | Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images Can the right-wing machine hold the base in an alternate reality long enough to get through the next election? Back in 2017, I wrote a piece speculating that the Mueller hearings might bring America’s epistemic crisis to a head. ThatContinue reading “With impeachment, America’s epistemic crisis has arrived”

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke in France, 2019. Handke has been accused of genocide apologism. | ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects. Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and related subjects. Here’sContinue reading “How a conspiracy theory about the Bosnian genocide infiltrated the Nobel committee”

Homer was deeply apologetic about this whole aspect ratio mess. | 20th Century Fox Our national nightmare is over. Everything’s coming up Milhouse! After many websites across the entirety of this great internet of ours — including the one you are reading right now — complained about Disney+ displaying the first 19 and a halfContinue reading “Disney+ will stream The Simpsons in its original 4:3 aspect ratio in early 2020”

Win McNamee/Getty Images Three State Department officials testify publicly in the impeachment inquiry; Israel and Islamic Jihad in Gaza exchange strikes, despite a ceasefire. Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what’s happening in the world. Sign up for the Vox Sentences newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday, or view the Vox SentencesContinue reading “Vox Sentences: A tampering tweet?”

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on November 15, 2019. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images One takeaway includes a dramatic, real-time attack by President Trump. The most dramatic moment of former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch’s appearance before the House impeachment inquiry on Friday actually happenedContinue reading “4 main takeaways from Marie Yovanovitch’s impeachment hearing”

Stefanik questions Yovanovitch on Friday. | Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Rep. Elise Stefanik is accusing the House intel chair of treating Republicans unfairly, but all he did was try to enforce the rules. At one point during Friday’s impeachment hearing with former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA)Continue reading “How a bad-faith attack on Schiff made its way from Twitter to Trump’s lips”

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images It all happened in a group foster home. There was screaming, cursing, and a head slammed against the wall. A public defender called it “egregious.” Another called it “horrific.” In a video that aired Thursday on Tucson’s KOLD news station, a white sheriff’s deputy is seen tackling and wrestling a black teenContinue reading “Disturbing video shows an Arizona sheriff’s deputy body slam a quadruple amputee”