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Wade Rathke

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No State Spared from Trump’s First Year Back

There can’t be much doubt that the New York Times is not President Trump’s favorite newspaper. Weeks ago, they included in the Sunday paper a special section that sought to survey the changes that Trump had wrought in his first year. Stripping out any opinion, and looking at “just the fact, ma…
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Boomers and Gen Z to the Rescue

In facing off against repression and standing firm against growing autocracy in one place or another, there’s a weird and powerful de facto alliance taking shape that’s worth learning more about: Boomers and Gen Z are at the frontlines.With the caveat that any survey that is more self-selected than…
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Drawing the Line in Minneapolis

There is an undeclared civil war in America now. Trump and his administration have weaponized and mobilized the federal government in one initiative after another against people in the United States. Seeing himself as having unlimited powers and enabling his administration to ignore the law and…
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FCC Equal Time: Promise or a Threat?

The equal time provisions under decades of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) actions have largely been eroded and haphazardly enforced, if all. Ostensibly, provisions still exist on the books as statute and via FCC regulations. “Under section 315, if a broadcast station permits any legally…