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Spin Class Case Study: How Eric Schmitt's VP Launch Died on the Hawks-Hawkeyes Mix-Up (opens the original)
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You’ve probably already seen clips of Senator Eric Schmitt’s (R-Missouri) bizarre, failed attempt to trap former federal prosecutor Jack Smith into committing perjury in a Congressional hearing yesterday. If you haven’t, do yourself a favor and watch, or enjoy ’s rundown:You see, Schmitt was questioning Jack Smith, the former federal prosecutor tasked with investigating Trump back in the day.The GOP has long tried to nail Mr. Smith for impropriety.So, Schmitt asks Jack Smi
The Trump White House Press Pool Story is More Complicated Than It Seems (opens the original)
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It’s been a wild couple of days for those of us who closely watch Washington press corps drama. The story of why Trump banned several outlets from White House grounds, the subsequent refusal of the entire press corps to show up for pool duty, and the “launch” of “Trump TV” (more on that hot mess in a sec) are just the latest twists in a press cycle that centers political reporters’ favorite topic: themselves. Is it a good thing that when Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO from the White Hous
What I’ve Learned from Teaching 9/11 (opens the original)
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For several years after I left government, I taught a college class on foreign policy and the media at several DC universities.1 My students were mostly born after September 11, 2001, and their relationship to that day and its aftermath was akin to my relationship to the Iran hostage crisis or the election of Ronald Reagan: events that shaped our childhoods, but that we did not experience first-hand. Inherently impressionistic, filtered through other people’s priors, framings, and agendas. What
Spin Class Interview: Author Casey Michel on the New U.S. Oligarchy (And Why He’s Still Optimistic for the Future) (opens the original)
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It’s wild how universally “we’re in a new Gilded Age,” has been adopted as a cliché to describe Our Current Times. But even more surprising, argues author and anti-corruption expert Casey Michel, is how inadequate the comparison actually is. In his new book United States of Oligarchy: How America's Wealthiest Ally with Dictators, Weaken the U.S., and Destroy Democracy [<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/united-states-of-oligarchy-how-america-s-wealthiest-ally-with-dictators-weaken-the-u-s-and
"I Try to Assume Stupidity Instead of Malice:" Prism Media Investigation Part 2 (opens the original)
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