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Samer Kalaf

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks

Politics

The “Ground Zero Mosque” Strategy Makes An Even More Pathetic Return

Patrick Redford

Journalismism

The Truth Is An Inconvenience For Jake Tapper And Dana Bash

Alex Sujong Laughlin

New Yorkers watch the 2024 Presidential Debate between Trump and Biden in New York City, United States on June 27, 2024.

Without Fact-Checking, A Presidential Debate Is Just TV

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Tom Scocca

Donald Trump and Joe Biden, looking like a couple of brain-ruined old mummies during their presidential debate.

Margin Of Error

Debate Losers

Premature babies are moved from their incubators to another location at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

Hamas Will Be Anywhere That Israel Wants It To Be

Laura Wagner

CNN’s Newest Star Is Proudly “Nonpolitical”

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - MARCH 15: People walk by the world headquarters for CNN on March 15, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. Last month CNN's president Jeff Zucker resigned over a consensual, but unreported, relationship with a colleague. Television producer Chris Licht will become the company's new president in April.

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The “Ground Zero Mosque” Strategy Makes An Even More Pathetic Return

The Truth Is An Inconvenience For Jake Tapper And Dana Bash

Without Fact-Checking, A Presidential Debate Is Just TV

Debate Losers

Hamas Will Be Anywhere That Israel Wants It To Be

CNN’s Newest Star Is Proudly “Nonpolitical”

CNN+ Is On Quibi Watch

CNN’s Brian Stelter Tries A New Job

What’s The Point Of Wolf Blitzer?

It’s Never About Fairness