| Excerpt: | Loathing Ferguson -- "the most dangerous politician in our state's history," to quote Monson -- is a shared pastime of both men. |
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| Published at: | 8:19 PM on Friday, August 5th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Media Criticism |
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Category Archives: Media & Culture
Birds of a feather flock together: Dori Monson brings Tim Eyman on his show for a gripefest about Attorney General Bob Ferguson
Midterms marvel: Seattle Times endorses a Democratic-only slate in marquee races
| Excerpt: | In what may come as a pleasant surprise to the majority of its readers, The Seattle Times is recommending a Democratic-only slate of candidates in each of the marquee contests that's on the 2022 ballot. |
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| Published at: | 5:48 PM on Saturday, July 16th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Media Criticism, WA-08, WA-Exec, WA-Sen |
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Documentary Review: The Arctic — Our Last Great Wilderness is an immersive, stirring call to conserve one of Earth’s wildest places
| Excerpt: | Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly's review of a film created by Florian Schulz and the Campion Advocacy Fund that majestically makes the case for leaving the Arctic Refuge free from destructive activities like oil and petroleum gas drilling. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Tags: | Conservation, Films |
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Book Review: It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful relates how art helped combat AIDS
| Excerpt: | Lowery chronicles the art installations by the collective Gran Fury, including Kissing Doesn’t Kill and All People With Aids are Innocent, while also describing the tragic consequences AIDS was having on the members themselves. |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Saturday, June 18th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Alexa Moormeier |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Healthcare, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Books, Combating Diseases, Global Health |
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Book Review: Flipped recounts Georgia progressives’ big 2020 breakthrough
| Excerpt: | The thrilling victories of the Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, which were followed within hours by the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, are richly chronicled in Flipped, a recently published book by the chief political reporter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Greg Bluestein. |
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| Published at: | 7:22 PM on Saturday, May 28th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Alexa Moormeier |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Books, GA-Sen |
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Putin’s war in Ukraine isn’t going well, but with no free press to hold him accountable, public opinion isn’t turning against him
| Excerpt: | Former U.S. Representative Don Bonker explains how Russia's lack of a free press has allowed Vladimir Putin to manipulate public opinion in his favor even though Putin's murderous war in Ukraine isn't getting results for the Kremlin. |
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| Published at: | 7:15 PM on Friday, April 15th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Don Bonker |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Diplomacy & Conflict, First Freedoms |
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Book Review: Left Behind puts the DLC’s failed track record under a microscope
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, by historian Lily Geismer, an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. |
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| Published at: | 4:00 PM on Sunday, March 27th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Alexa Moormeier |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Economic Security |
| Tags: | Books, Social Safety Net |
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Extremism Watch: Sinclair’s Jonathan Choe serves up lots of publicity for the Proud Boys
| Excerpt: | Choe calls himself a journalist -- he even emphasizes that label as part of his Twitter handle -- but he rarely seems to practice what the Society of Professional Journalists defines in their code of ethics as journalism. On March 19th, he pretty much dropped any pretense of being a journalist and instead chose to act as a press agent for the Proud Boys during his afternoon in Olympia. |
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| Published at: | 10:15 PM on Sunday, March 20th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Extremism Watch, Media Criticism |
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Book Review: Laboratories of Autocracy puts Republican-run statehouses under a spotlight
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines, by Ohio Democratic Party Chair David Pepper. |
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| Published at: | 12:00 PM on Sunday, February 27th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Alexa Moormeier |
| Other Categories: | Party Politics |
| Tags: | Books, State Legislatures |
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Why the 2022 midterms in Washington State could look more like 2018 than 2010 or 2014
| Excerpt: | In this in-depth post for The Cascadia Advocate, NPI's founder and executive director discusses how Republicans are working successfully to push reporters and pollsters to view the midterms on their terms and critiques Stuart Elway's recent Washington State polling. |
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| Published at: | 2:00 PM on Friday, January 28th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Media Criticism, Research Poll Findings, WA-Sen |
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We can’t know our future, but we can be better prepared to defend our democracy
| Excerpt: | Progressives can no longer rely on old political, societal, or governmental norms, resulting shame for violating said norms, or a judiciary that has become too far removed from the realities of how racism, classism and misogyny exist in our time, to restrain an opposition willing to cast aside all norms and legal precedents as is necessary to achieve and permanently retain power. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Friday, January 7th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | January 6th Attack on the Capitol |
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The threat to American elections: No time for hysteria, but we should all be worried