Multiple voices shouted over one another and genuine dislikes emerged as seven Republican presidential hopefuls held their second debate tonight on party-aligned FNC at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
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Book Review: “What Are You Gonna Do About It?” presents the wisdom of Jolene Unsoeld
Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly’s review of “What Are You Gonna Do About It? Stories of a Hopeless Meddler,” from Jolene Unsoeld, completed after her death by her son Krag Unsoeld.
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Book Review: An assault on American democracy and our responsibility to stop it
Read NPI contributor Joel Connelly’s review of The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy, by renowned journalist David Neiwert.
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The Stranger versus PubliCola versus The Urbanist: Comparing their August 2023 Seattle City Council endorsements
Read NPI’s analysis of the endorsements published by The Stranger, PubliCola, and The Urbanist for Seattle City Council in the August 2023 Top Two election.
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Ultra MAGA Republicans give RFK’s wayward son another platform to spew his bile
The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jim Jordan, invited Robert F. Kennedy’s son to entertain them with conspiracy theories and misinformation on July 20th.
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The Seattle Times versus The Stranger: How their 2023 MLKC area endorsements compare
With each paper’s set of endorsements now available to scrutinize, our team thought it would be interesting to do a comparison and see where the papers agree and disagree. You might think the papers would be far apart in their choices, and sometimes they were… but not always!
Posted inPolicy Topics
A majority of Washington voters agree big tech companies should have to pay for news
55% of 773 likely general election voters in Washington interviewed earlier this month said they strongly or somewhat agreed that big tech companies like Google and Facebook should be obligated to pay media publishers for news content. Only 17% somewhat or strongly disagreed, and 27% were not sure.
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Fox settles with Dominion, averting anxiously awaited trial in landmark defamation case
The pricetag for sparing the witness stand, and escaping accountability, came to $787.50 million. “The truth matters: Lies have consequences,” Dominion’s lawyer Justin Nelson said outside the courtroom. “Over two years ago, a torrent of lies swept Dominion and election officials across America into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories, causing grievous harm to Dominion and the country.”
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Two-faced Tucker Carlson and the ugly underbelly of Rupert Murdoch’s FNC
“I hate him passionately,” Tucker said in an email two days before the January 6th insurrection, adding that “we are very very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.”
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Book Review: 100% Democracy makes the case for adopting universal voting in the U.S.
Read NPI’s review of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting, by writer E. J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport, a former Secretary of State.
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Seattle Times endorses NPI’s legislation to repeal statewide “advisory votes”
Titled “Boot confusing advisory votes from WA ballots,” this is a fresh contender for our team’s favorite Seattle Times editorial. It’s well written, has compelling opening and concluding passages, and the logic that holds it together is sound.
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President Biden challenges Congress to help him “finish the job” of getting America back on track in upbeat State of the Union address
“To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we can’t work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress,” said Biden. “The people sent us a clear message. Fighting for the sake of fighting, power for the sake of power, conflict for the sake of conflict, gets us nowhere.”
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Dori Monson: 1961–2022
Longtime right wing talk radio host Dori Monson died suddenly this weekend of an unspecified condition after being hospitalized, his employer Bonneville Seattle announced on its website today. Monson was sixty-one.
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NYT admits its midterms coverage was wrongly wedded to a “red wave” narrative
“Not for the first time, a warped understanding of the contours of a national election had come to dominate the views of political operatives, donors, journalists and, in some cases, the candidates themselves,” the story penned by the trio of Jim Rutenberg, Ken Bensinger, and Steve Eder acknowledged.