Archive - Flux

CNN’s Ryan Girdusky fiasco is part of a much bigger problem in mainstream media

By obsessively trying to have ‘balanced’ discussions, mainstream television news keeps platforming extremists

Oct 29 •

Matthew Sheffield

John Kelly and Mark Milley are sounding a general emergency for the U.S.

Former generals who worked with Trump are calling him a fascist and talking about his wish to inflict violence on American citizens. This is simply…

Oct 25 •

Harris and Trump head to pop-culture podcasts as Election Day looms

Plus: Trump's small-dollar donor collapse compared to 2020

Oct 25 •

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Matthew Sheffield

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Far-right conferences are radicalizing millions, with almost no mainstream media coverage

Journalist Amanda Moore discusses how the lucrative reactionary conference scene is trying to recapture the supposed glory of January 6th

Oct 22 •

Matthew Sheffield

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Are Trump's insane mass deportation plans a greater vulnerability for him than Democrats think?

A tougher response carries risks for the Harris campaign, but a lack of pushback may be helping validate extremist GOP views on immigration and race

Oct 20 •

Harris campaign starts to pivot to foreground Trump's violent threats against political opponents

Both VP Harris and Gov. Walz warned Americans that Trump considers anyone who doesn't support him to be "an enemy of the country" — and not a moment too…

Oct 16 •

Donald Trump’s bet on non-voters is high-risk, high-reward

Suffolk University pollster David Paleologos on the difficulty of predicting the 2024 electorate

Oct 12 •

Matthew Sheffield

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The mainstream media were ‘sanewashing’ Republicans long before Donald Trump

Historian Rick Perlstein on why many journalists sanitize far-right viewpoints, and what can be done about it

Oct 9 •

Matthew Sheffield

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Telling the truth about Trump's 2020 election coup attempt is essential to our democratic future

As the GOP mythologizes the events around January 6 to pave the way for a second Trump term, the need to agree on the right lessons for our democracy…

Oct 7 •

The science behind why Donald Trump loves the ‘poorly educated’

Sociologist Darren Sherkat discusses how right-wing social viewpoints seem to inhibit cognitive development

Oct 3 •

Matthew Sheffield

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September 2024

Trump and Vance's immigration slander is a gateway to full-throated white supremacism

Democrats need to find a way to expose the link between GOP anti-immigrant rhetoric and MAGA animosity towards non-white citizens

Sep 30 •

How far-right Christian media brainwash evangelicals

Peter Montgomery of Right Wing Watch tells how Christian nationalist media are radicalizing their viewers

Sep 28 •

Matthew Sheffield

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Peter Montgomery

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