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04 March 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOCUS: On the Ground With the Parkland Teens as They Plot Their Revolution  Lisa Miller, New York Magazine Miller writes: "Most of these kids are juniors and seniors who, in the taxonomy of high school, were the 'misfits.'" READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

04 March 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Stephen Colbert Goes to Washington to Grill Congressmen on Trump-Russia  Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast Stern writes: "'I believe it's time for some answers, so recently I went to Congress to investigate the investigations,' Stephen Colbert announced on The Late Show Friday." READ MORE Last week it emerged that Xi Jinping would attempt to abolish presidential term limits. (photo: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images) 'Maybe We'll Give That a Shot': Donald Trump Praises Xi Jinping's Power Grab Tom Phillips, Guardian UK Phillips writes: "Donald Trump has celebrated Xi Jinping's bid to shepherd China back into an era of one-man dictatorship, suggesting the United States might one day 'give that a shot.'" READ MORE George Nader, an adviser to the leader of the United Arab Emirates, has been questioned in the special counsel investigation, acco...

  Democracy Dies in Darkness     Most popular right now ‘Pure madness’: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages The president has fumed about news coverage of scandals and remains furious with his attorney general, while friends worry that he is becoming too isolated. By Philip Rucker  •   Read more » The Post's View •  Opinion Hope Hicks’s resignation caused a stir. But what she did first is more important. Republicans in Congress who stood up to President Barack Obama don’t seem to care about Article I anymore. By Editorial Board  •    Read more »   Watch a bear pick a fight with a tiger to try to save her cub The tourists didn't know it, but they would see a tiger challenged that afternoon. By Avi Selk  •    Read more »   At a white-tie Gridiron dinner, President Trump tries joking: ‘I like chaos’ The president ...

Compelling, ambitious reads you can’t afford to miss. Must Reads: 'Crisis actors' and the Internet's 'firehose of hatred' Craig Timberg had never spent time on the anonymous and often ugly online forum 8chan. Then he and Drew Harwell, both national technology reporters, spent days combing through some of the Internet's darkest corners after 17 people were killed at a high school in Parkland, Fla. They were trying to conduct a "forensic investigation of conspiracy theories," Timberg said, to understand how false stories about "crisis actors” took root on 8chan, 4chan, Reddit and then spread on social media. "Both Drew and I were curious if we could get closer to what happened," said Timberg, who has spent 20 years at The Post covering everything from the Virginia legislature to post-apartheid South Africa. Timberg used search and privacy tools Duck Duck Go and Tor to find the forum's most revealing threads and "re...