Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Top Stories of 2020: #7 & #6
December 25, 2020 – Coming in at number 7 on our top stories of the year is a topic we have dubbed “mask madness.” In so many ways, face coverings have become the political flashpoint of the past year. The Line opinion panelists weigh in on how a piece of cloth became such a dividing…
Read MoreThe Real Crime
Attack ads and contemporary political rhetoric about crime have a disturbing campaign ancestor: The Willie Horton ad that may have cost Michael Dukakis the presidential election in 1988. It relied on racism for its efficacy, and it ushered in an era of so-called “tough-on-crime” laws and posturing that nearly broke criminal legal systems, like the…
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