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Bernie Sanders Is Quietly Building an Alternative Media Powerhouse 
Senator Bernie Sanders. (photo: Facebook)
Gabriel Debenedetti, New York Magazine
Debenedetti writes: "The Vermont senator, who's been comparing corporate television programming to drugs and accusing it of creating a 'nation of morons' since at least 1979 - and musing to friends about creating an alternative news outlet for at least as long - has spent the last year and a half building something close to a small network out of his office in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill."
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President Trump reportedly said on cable television this morning that [Michael] Cohen performs 'a tiny, tiny little fraction' of his overall legal work, prosecutors said in a letter. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)
President Trump reportedly said on cable television this morning that [Michael] Cohen performs 'a tiny, tiny little fraction' of his overall legal work, prosecutors said in a letter. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)

Trump's Comments Cause Him Legal Headaches - Again
Josh Gerstein, Politico
Gerstein writes: "President Donald Trump's penchant for freewheeling chatter on issues being litigated in court landed him in hot water again Thursday, potentially upending his attorneys' strategy in ongoing court battles involving his personal lawyer Michael Cohen."
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Representative Nancy Pelosi. (photo: Getty)
Representative Nancy Pelosi. (photo: Getty)

Nancy Pelosi Says Democrats Intervening to Prop Up Bad Centrists in Primaries Is Just Fine
Katherine Krueger, Splinter News
Krueger writes: "For Nancy Pelosi, the way Democrats do business - which, particularly in the run-up to the 2018 midterms, has meant redoubling its efforts to hobble left wing challengers to establishment candidates - is A-OK with her."
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Thousands march to the Arizona Capitol for higher teacher pay and school funding, April 26, 2018, in Phoenix. (photo: Ross D. Franklin/AP)
Thousands march to the Arizona Capitol for higher teacher pay and school funding, April 26, 2018, in Phoenix. (photo: Ross D. Franklin/AP)

Seeing Red: Teacher Walkouts in Arizona, Colorado Demand Lawmakers Fund Education
Melissa Daniels and Anita Snow, Chicago Tribune
Excerpt: "Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear."
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Vanessa Croft stands in front of the EJI memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. (photo: Brendan Gilliam)
Vanessa Croft stands in front of the EJI memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. (photo: Brendan Gilliam)

Why America Must Atone for Its Lynchings
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington writes: "Until now, the enforcement of white supremacy through racial terrorism in the form of lynching has largely been unrecognized as part of America's history."
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After crossing the demarcation line, Kim and Moon walk to the official welcome hall for the first North-South summit in more than a decade. (photo: Korea Summit Press Pool/Getty)
After crossing the demarcation line, Kim and Moon walk to the official welcome hall for the first North-South summit in more than a decade. (photo: Korea Summit Press Pool/Getty)

Korean Leaders Take Historic Steps Toward Possible Peace Accord
Thomas Maresca, USA TODAY
Maresca writes: "History was made with a few small steps Friday morning as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walked across the heavily armed border that separates the Korean Peninsula and greeted South Korean President Moon Jae-in."
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt claims the new rule will strengthen transparency. Scientific organizations worry it will exclude valuable data from EPA's rule-making process. (photo: Jason Andrew/Getty)
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt claims the new rule will strengthen transparency. Scientific organizations worry it will exclude valuable data from EPA's rule-making process. (photo: Jason Andrew/Getty)

Pruitt Proposes New Rule Defining What Science Can Be Used by EPA
Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR
Chatterjee writes: "The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, has proposed a new rule that restricts scientific research that can be used by the agency for its regulatory decisions."
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