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What Bette Davis Can Teach Donald Trump About Fake News
This originally appeared in the Forward and is republished with permission. You are teaching a class on media literacy. You want your students to think critically about the truth claims of messages....
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Roseanne Greets Her Muslim Neighbors With Islamophobia, Until She’s Woke
This originally appeared in the Forward and is republished with permission. In this week’s episode, Roseanne hates on the Muslims. Spoiler alert: By the end, Roseanne gets woke. But how many racist...
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“Roseanne” Has New Neighbors. They’re Muslim.
ABC made the May 8, 2018 episode of “Roseanne” available in advance for comment by some thoughtful observers. When producer Tom Werner, an old friend, asked me if I had some scholars to suggest, I...
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Life, Death And Wrestling With Delacroix’s Angel In Paris
This originally appeared in the Forward and is republished with permission. You must see the garden,” said the guard, in French, pointing to a door in the Delacroix Museum that my daughter and I hadn’t...
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In The Face Of Circus Politics, We Need Better Stories
This originally appeared in the Forward and is republished with permission. I recently returned from a Trump fast. It was actually a news fast, but since the news these days is pretty much all Trump...
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Trust #PlaidShirtGuy To End Trump’s Nightmare Reign
This originally appeared in the Forward and is republished with permission. I was wondering if I was reading too much into the near-convergence of Sen. John McCain’s funeral; Labor Day, the traditional...
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The Suicide Epidemic Is A Symptom Of Our Sick Body Politic
This originally appeared in the Forward and is republished with permission. I would love to believe in petitionary prayer. Especially when life and death are at stake, a God who hears my supplications...
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The Straight Line From 5,000 Trump Lies To 11 Jews Murdered In Pittsburgh
“There must be no tolerance for anti-Semitism in America,” Donald Trump told the Future Farmers of America following the mass murder in a Pittsburgh synagogue at a Sabbath service — the same Trump who...
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News Media Should Democratize Presidential Debates — Not Monetize Them
This originally appeared in the Forward and is republished with permission.The CBS board may have fired Les Moonves for misleading them about sex, but he did call it straight about money, media and...
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I Remember ‘Aunt Carol’ Channing
This originally appeared in the Forward and is republished with permission.This temple is going to the dogs,” said the congregant making her way to a seat, to no one in particular but loudly enough for...
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