Art doesn’t predict the future, but it can be an early warning system.
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Some who once championed Arday seem to be trying to deflect from their own embarrassing credulity.
Rose Horowitch, author of The Atlantic’s “The End of Reading Is Here,” joins MS NOW’s Ari Melber on "The Beat" alongside The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg. (The Beat's YouTube: https://ms.now/ari)
Abdul El-Sayed is quick, magnetic, overflowing with infectious confidence. But he also has a blind spot endemic to his movement.
Trump is beatable if you take a page from his playbook and flood the zone with opposition.
A.I. has rendered eye candy cheap. Viewers long for the visceral.
Once started, the process of voter radicalization isn’t easy to modulate.
How much have the rules of politics changed?
The Graham Platner experiment has failed. “There have been so many errors of judgment at every step of the way,” the columnist Michelle Goldberg argues following the implosion of the senate candidate’s campaign in Maine.
Many Democrats want representatives as furious as they are. That makes it easier for unfit candidates to escape proper vetting.