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WNYC

Mueller: In the Cross Hairs of Conservative Media

FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained thousands of documents and emails from the Trump transition team as part of his investigation into Russian collusion during the 2016 election. Conservative media outlets, along with President Trump, continue to question Mueller and the credibility of the FBI. Nicole Hemmer, assistant professor at UVA Miller Center and author of "Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics," weighs in.
Nicole Hemmer
Motherboard

Historians are calling out Trump online whenever he misreads the past

Brian Balogh, a historian at the University of Virginia, cohosts Backstory, the popular weekly history podcast. He agrees that the history profession is evolving to accommodate concerns about misinformation, though he also cautions that those who choose to sit out this battle are not somehow derelict of duty.
Brian Balogh
Time Magazine

Roy Moore is going to cause a longterm headache for the GOP

The Alabama Senate race provides a playbook for the type of campaign that can help Democrats win, even when they face opponents far less incendiary than Roy Moore. For Democrats to retake the House and Senate, they will have to drive turnout among college graduates, women, young people and minority voters, while reaching out to independents who supported Trump in 2016 but are now having regrets.
Chris Lu
Patheos

Dinesh D’Souza and the downfall of conservatism

Nicole Hemmer makes an interesting point in a column in US News and World Report, comparing the rise and fall of Dinesh D’Souza over the last couple decades to the path taken by Republicans and conservatism in this country as it has created an alternate universe in which facts and logic do not matter at all.
Nicole Hemmer