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‘It’s the president we all want’: The melancholy world of liberals watching ‘The West Wing’ in 2018

Chris Lu, Obama’s Cabinet secretary, said in an interview that the show “reminds me of working for a president who was 100 percent committed to public service, working with White House staffers, my colleagues, who were there to further the public interest instead of enriching themselves.”

Chris Lu

The Bill Press Show

Miller Center Senior Fellow Chris Lu guest-hosts the Bill Press Show

Chris Lu

A Mass Grave of Former Slaves Was Unearthed in Texas

During the convict-leasing era, African-Americans were arrested for crimes such as “vagrancy, flirting with white women or petty theft,” according to Douglas A. Blackmon, a historian and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Slavery by Another Name.

Douglas Blackmon

Associate Professor Todd Sechser

Todd Sechser is interviewed on WINA radio

Todd Sechser

What became of the report on Atlanta’s Confederate symbols? Very little

“If in the end, that report and that process just vanishes because it’s too uncomfortable for some people, then that will mean the whole process was window dressing, that it was never a serious effort, if it’s going to just disappear into silence now,” said Doug Blackmon, a committee member, Grant Park resident and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Douglas Blackmon

How the right became addicted to conspiracies

So why has the right become so vulnerable to conspiracy? The broader ecosystem of conservative media — even the respectable, non-conspiratorial conservative media — shares a good deal of the blame. Whether they’re talking about health-care legislation or the murder of Seth Rich, columnists and radio talkers and cable news hosts have trained conservatives to evaluate sources based on ideology, not facts or logic. Asserting that all media are biased, they have told their audiences to treat trust and truth as functions of tribalism.

Nicole Hemmer