I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
AL FRANKENMy parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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