Evening Roundup, September 18
Featuring "The Tea" with April Ryan, Meredith Blake, Tom Malinowski, Neera Tanden, Jeff Nesbit, Azza Cohen, Kris Brown, Shalise Manza Young, and The Democracy Movement
The Tea w/ April ft. Mandela Barnes and Derrick Johnson
Free speech was the topic of the day all across America on Thursday after comedian Jimmy Kimmel was suspended from his late-night show by ABC for comments about the alleged shooter of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk — and April Ryan brought the tea to the topic with her guests, former Wisconsin lieutenant governor Mandela Barnes and NAACP Presiden…
Now That Jimmy Kimmel Has Been Pulled Off the Air, It's Time for Hollywood to Grow a Spine
First they came for Stephen Colbert, and Hollywood did not speak out.
The danger in stoking fear to scapegoat political enemies
Near the climax of the great American political thriller “The Manchurian Candidate,” the Soviet sleeper agent wife of vice presidential candidate Johnny Iselin (she played brilliantly by Angela Lansbury; he modeled on the red-baiting Sen. Joseph McCarthy)…
Healthcare for millions of Americans is on the brink because of Republicans: Neera Tanden in conversation
Jen is joined by Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden to discuss the looming threat of a government shutdown, Republicans’ efforts to gut healthcare, and the future of the free speech.
A line in the sand at the CDC
By Jeff Nesbit
Standing for science over politics, a former CDC director testifies to Congress.
Split Screen: Listening as an act of resistance
For The Contrarian, I usually write about visuals—how images shape our understanding of power and politics. Today, I want to write about sound. Specifically, the sound that has become the unwelcome soundtrack to daily life in Washington, D.C.: helicopters
Gun violence is an uniquely American problem: Kris Brown in conversation
Guns are the #1 killers of our kids. This is a completely preventable tragedy and a uniquely American one at that.
No, Sen. Schmitt. America belongs to all of us.
By Shalise Manza Young
White Christian nationalism’s influence is growing, and it's not staying in the shadows anymore.
The Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement
Thursday: Freedom-loving people in the United Kingdom understood the assignment (featuring Billy Bragg), plus a plea from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.
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After reading of opinion columnist Karen Attiah’s firing from the WaPo, I sent a letter to the editor outlining the many outrages there in recent months as an explanation for my cancellation of my longtime subscription to WaPo. I ended my letter with: DEMOCRACY IS DYING IN DARKNESS.
Thanks to The Contrarian and other sources of independent journalism I have somewhere to go.
All of you reading my comment will undoubtedly say to me: “What took you so long!!”
“First they came for Stephen Colbert, and Hollywood did not speak out“
FALSE — they awarded him with his first EMMY … the other night he kept popping the award out as a running gag!
And don’t be surprised if Colbert’s show makes a ‘surprise’ comeback,
— or better yet … if he goes into politics!
If a 2-bit reality TV presenter like Trump can ‘make it’ …