Terms for our Times

When we treat American politics as a spectrum of equally-valid ideas and good-faith arguments made in the public interest, we’re actually distorting reality. These old binaries have become a smokescreen for news outlets to sound like they’re covering issues neutrally, when in fact they are simply slapping vague labels on things. Whether the passage of a bill is a “win” for Trump, or Republicans, or Democrats is largely irrelevant. It tells us nothing about the actual effect on people.

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