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Kyle Paoletta

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[Letter from the Great Plains]

Barn Burners

Can the Democrats harness the new prairie populism?

by Kyle Paoletta,

[Letter from the Campaign Trail]

The Race for Second Place

The Republican primaries as farce

by Kyle Paoletta,

The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday

How the climate catastrophists learned to stop worrying and love the calm

by Kyle Paoletta,

Changing Views on Climate Change

Fairweather friends of the planet: climate journalism’s abrupt swing from apocalypse to dreamland

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Kyle Paoletta

One Horse Town

“Twitter isn’t real life.” So declared New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg last week, writing on the budding Democratic presidential primary. In fact, as a source of information on the…

by Kyle Paoletta,

Playing With Fire

For folks on either coast, the story of climate change is also a story about extreme wealth disparity.

by Kyle Paoletta,

Boys on the Bus

This week, the cover of Time magazine features Pete Buttigieg and his husband alongside the headline “First Family.” Looking like the definition of middle-American business casual, the pair stands amiably…

by Kyle Paoletta,

Correct the Record

Last week, President Trump distorted the truth for the ten thousandth time since taking office. That’s according to Glenn Kessler and his fact-checking team at the Washington Post, who have…

by Kyle Paoletta,

Too Big to Cover

Finally, after months of speculation, Facebook announced on Wednesday that it is prepared to pay up to $5 billion to the Federal Trade Commission for violating an agreement to protect user…

by Kyle Paoletta,

Crisis Mode

Until recently, the editorial boards of the nation’s leading newspapers agreed on one important fact: there was no crisis at the border. In March, when President Trump declared a national emergency,…

by Kyle Paoletta,

Grading on a Curve

Early this week, the media pounced on the latest installment of Operation Varsity Blues, the investigation into what federal prosecutors have called the largest college admissions scam in American history,…

by Kyle Paoletta,

Exit Left

The American press is obsessed with explaining Brexit. Just this week, the New York Times published four Brexit explainers. CNN has run at least eight since January, including a video…

by Kyle Paoletta,

A Dark Cloud

After two years of speculation about the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the press can finally stop guessing. Last weekend, Attorney General William Barr sent Congress…

by Kyle Paoletta,

Rain Check

When a bomb cyclone hit the Great Plains last Wednesday, the national media responded, predictably, with a few weather reports. The Washington Post told of the cyclone’s heavy winds, the…

by Kyle Paoletta,

Clique Bait

The Atlantic dropped a whale of a think piece this week, a David Frum immigration special that was posted online first thing Monday morning, drumming up condemnation, hand-wringing, and #NeverTrump…

by Kyle Paoletta,

A Million Turning Points

At the moment the Trump Administration reaches the point of no return, when the president’s erstwhile Republican allies join arm in arm with their Democratic brethren in Congress to remove…

by Kyle Paoletta,

The Bad and the Ugly

Acquiring works for the Museum of Bad Art

by Kyle Paoletta,

[Six Questions]

Savage Coast

Rowena Kennedy-Epstein on Muriel Rukeyser’s political and emotional vision

by Kyle Paoletta,

[Weekly Review]

Weekly Review

Tension in Turkey, storm-chasing tragedy in Oklahoma, and auf Wiedersehen to Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

by Kyle Paoletta,

[Six Questions]

This Is Running for Your Life: Essays

Michelle Orange on the art of the personal essay, navigating cultural overload, and the distance that separates two human heads

by Kyle Paoletta,

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