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Scott MacFarlane: Fighting Back Against Misinformation | It's the Democracy, Stupid

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  July All-Access Special: For a limited time, you can lock in 40% off your subscription—just $6/month—to ensure you never miss a premium article or member-only podcast episode again. Get unfiltered, deep-dive political analysis from the sharpest strategists in the game when you upgrade now for just 16 cents per day!   Watch now   Scott MacFarlane: Fighting Back Against Misinformation | It's the Democracy, Stupid Democracy's dying, one lie at a time. Edwin Eisendrath and Scott MacFarlane Aug 7 Veteran journalist Scott MacFarlane of MeidasTouch Network sits down with Edwin Eisendrath to take on the biggest threat facing American democracy: The erosion of the truth. As Trump continues to attack journalism and misinformation floods every corner of public life, democracy can’t survive if facts become optional. In this new political climate, independent journalism stands as one of the last lines of defense against authoritarianism. Articles Stop Letting Trump Write Your H...

We Learned All the Wrong Lessons from COVID. This Week’s Fauci Hearing Proves It.

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  July All-Access Special: For a limited time, you can lock in 40% off your subscription—just $6/month—to ensure you never miss a premium article or member-only podcast episode again. Get unfiltered, deep-dive political analysis from the sharpest strategists in the game when you upgrade now for just 16 cents per day! We Learned All the Wrong Lessons from COVID. This Week’s Fauci Hearing Proves It. MAHA isn’t a wellness movement. It’s a suicide pact, run by people who are either sociopathically indifferent to the death toll or willfully blind to it. Susan J. Demas Jul 31     Dr. Anthony Fauci spent three hours this week pleading the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times before a Senate committee run by Rand Paul. It was a sad, destructive spectacle that tells you everything about how badly we’ve botched the lessons of a pandemic that killed more than a million Americans. Republicans billed the hearing as an unflinching investigation into COVID-19’s origins. But this was...