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Bret Stephens and the Toxicity of Twitter

August 29, 2019 — Media, Politics

George Washington University associate professor David Karpf hopefully enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame. Karpf’s tweet on Tuesday likening New York Times columnist Bret Stephens to a “bedbug” garnered the prof national media attention and ultimately drove Stephens off the social media site. Donald Trump piled on, demonstrating once again…

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The “Racist” Attacks on Ilan Omar and Rashida Tlaib

July 21, 2019 — Politics

Margaret Wente, a U.S.-born columnist for Canada’s Globe and Mail, wrote a commentary in February pondering how to prevent the populist movement overtaking the politics of her adopted country the way it has in the U.S. and much of Europe.  Canada would seem fertile ground for populism: Twenty percent of…

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