Wednesday
October 21, 2020

As major media outlets erect paywalls, conservative publishers are flooding the country with free, right-wing propaganda paid for by Republicans.

By Alex Pareene

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	Can the Supreme Court Be Fixed? The problem with the highest court in the country isn’t just that it’s too conservative—it’s also too powerful.The Politics of Everything Podcast hosted by Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene

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	ExxonMobil’s Real Quid Pro Quo With the GovernmentTrump suggested he could extort oil executives for campaign donations. The truth is more troubling.By Kate Aronoff

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	Trump Is Giving America a Grisly Preview of a Second TermIf reelected, he would likely take his exuberant penchant for corruption and vindictiveness to pornographic heights.By Matt Ford

	A Covid-19 Vaccine Doesn’t Need to Be PerfectThe first vaccine may not even be 50 percent effective. But that will still help to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control.By Melody Schreiber

	There Are No Good Republicans for a Biden White House If the best prospects he can dig up are reclamation projects like John Kasich and Meg Whitman, then just recruit Democrats.By Libby Watson

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