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November 22, 2016
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Will Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III Make America White Again?

He and his supporters may have whitewashed his record, but the Alabama senator’s past statements and actions can be described in a single word: racist.
 

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#NoDAPL Live Blog: One Demonstrator Faces Multiple Surgeries After Injury to Arm

Follow along as Truthdig provides live updates from the demonstrations taking place at and near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
 
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We Are All Deplorables

Liberals have no moral authority to preach to a dispossessed white working class about racism, multiculturalism, identity politics or diversity. The abject failure by liberals to fight for economic justice triggered the protofascist backlash embodied by Donald Trump’s election victory.
 
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The former “Daily Show” host criticizes the liberal community’s hypocrisy and the GOP’s “cynical” strategy in a TV interview with journalist Charlie Rose.

The Truthdig team sat down with investigative journalist Greg Palast to discuss “rigged” elections and voter difficulties. (Transcript added)

 
 
 
 
Donald Trump Opens Up to ‘Dishonest’ Media With Meetings On and Off the Record

Breaking the mold as president-elect, Trump foregoes traditional news conferences in favor of private sessions with network executives, TV anchors and journalists at The New York Times.

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I am sick right now—literally

The American people need time to heal after this election, and we should be looking to human compassion, not our president, for a cure.

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‘We Can Beat This Guy’: Bernie Sanders Urges Mass Mobilization Against Donald Trump’s Agenda

“It’s not a question of us working with Trump. It’s a question of Trump working with us.”

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Donald Trump Changes His Tune on Key Campaign-Trail Pledges

Remember how, mere weeks ago, Trump’s supporters chanted “Lock her up!” with gusto?

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Electing the Tyrant: Parallels Among Ancient Rome, Mexico During the Conquest and the U.S. Today

If the Romans taught us anything, it is that their republic was built on excluding the many.

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Bad Faith Comes From More Than One Corner

Defeat has many parents, and buck-passing cannot be the national pastime.

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Shining a Stark Light on an American Tragedy’s Forgotten Survivors

While Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev languishes in prison, victims who lost limbs in the 2013 attack still struggle to cope with their horribly altered lives.

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President Obama, First ‘Cautiously Optimistic,’ Felt ‘Deep Disappointment’ After Trump’s Win

A new report by The New Yorker follows the outgoing president in the days leading up to and following Donald Trump’s stunning victory.

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Ivanka Trump Joined a Call With Argentinian President Mauricio Macri

Charges of nepotism haven’t stopped the president-elect’s daughter from joining a meeting with a head of state for second time in a week.

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Five Donald Trump Headlines More Outrageous Than the ‘Hamilton’ Tiff

The New York Times ran the “Hamilton” story above the fold, while news that Trump had settled student lawsuits over the fraudulent Trump University for $25 million was placed below the fold.

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Navigating the Trump Crisis: Both ‘Anti-Trump’ and ‘Give Him a Chance’ Are Wrong

Progressives must go beyond protesting Donald Trump’s election or waiting to see what he does. Bernie Sanders has it right: We need a left-right coalition.

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Chris Hedges and Rachel Moran Discuss the Reality of Prostitution

The Truthdig columnist and the anti-prostitution activist examine how capitalism is at the core of sex work, which Moran (pictured, far right) calls “the commercialization of sexual abuse.”

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Alec Baldwin’s Return to ‘SNL’ Playing Donald Trump Sets Off Twitter Feud With the President-Elect

“You want more advice, call me,” the “Saturday Night Live” actor wrote to Trump, who tweeted there was “nothing funny” about the sketch starring Baldwin that aired this weekend.

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A Blueprint for a Party That Is Truly for the Working Class

Such a party, writes Seth Ackerman at Jacobin magazine, “must be independent—determining its own platform and educating around it. It should actually contest elections. And its candidates for public office should be members of the party, accountable to the membership, and pledged to respect the platform.”

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What Next for Conservatives Who Engaged in Pre-Election Hand-Wringing?

Just before the presidential election, a handful of conservative writers grappled with the extremism blooming within their party. Was it too little too late or better late than never? The author presents another question that is far more important now.

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Donald Trump Assembling Team of ‘Swamp Creatures,’ Says Democratic Lawmaker Keith Ellison

The progressive congressman said it’s clear the president-elect is “not doing what he’s said he’s gonna do for average working Americans.”

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Truthdigger of the Week: Radical Political Strategist Micah White

To withstand and ultimately overcome the imminent Trump regime, “American activists must move from detached indignation to revolutionary engagement by using the techniques of social movement creation to dominate elections,” says the co-creator of Occupy Wall Street.

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Christian Assyrian Woman Is Harassed as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking the Language of Jesus

So this is Trump’s foreigner-hating country: Using Aramaic in public is now equated with terrorism.

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In ‘Stunning Reversal,’ Trump Settles University Suits

He’s not admitting anything, but the man who says he “never settles” agreed to pay $25 million to avoid going to court over fraud accusations.

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Why Internment of Japanese-Americans Is an Outrageous Model for Registering Muslim Americans

The internment of U.S. citizens during World War II was a massive crime against innocents who had not been proven to have done anything wrong.

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