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Thursday
December 10, 2020

The Democrats Are Too Old

A grim report about Dianne Feinstein's cognitive decline underlines a larger problem with the leadership of the party.

By Alex Shephard

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	Nick Kristof and the Holy War on Pornhub Having declared victory in its war on Backpage and sex work, the liberal-conservative coalition has pivoted to porn.By Melissa Gira Grant

	Fox News Is in Trouble The network is facing real, sustained competition from the right for the first time in its history.By Alex Shephard

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	Biden Is Finding New and Inexplicable Ways to Screw Up His Cabinet PicksWho says the president-elect isn’t a political innovator?By Matt Ford

	Now Is When We Choose How Effective the Covid Vaccines Will BeIf we let cases continue to surge, we’ll be stuck in this pandemic for much longer.By Melody Schreiber

	Who Gets a Say in Our Dystopian Tech Future?A.I. research scientist Timnit Gebru raised red flags about Google’s most exciting new tech. She says she was forced out for it.By Josephine Livingstone

	The Stubborn Classism of Classical MusicWhat critics get wrong about the genre’s long-standing diversity problemsBy Robert Jackson Wood

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