On Monday, a committee put together by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to address the public health crisis in Flint…
Emma Roller
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Senior politics reporter at Splinter.
On Friday, actress Ellen Page published a Facebook post detailing her history of sexual harassment and assault in…
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Franklin Foer was the editor of The New Republic for a total of seven years. Over the past month, allegations…
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The wealth gap between white Americans and black Americans is stark. The median white family has somewhere between…
Reader, I was perusing today’s print edition of the venerated Washington Post opinion section when this headline…
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Last Thursday, Speaker of the House and erstwhile Ayn Rand fanboy Paul Ryan spoke with the New York Times’ Jonathan…
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In 2011, historian Corey Robin published The Conservative Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin. In…