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• Ian Wilder

  

  The reporter on the NYT's Bernie Sanders beat consistently fails to identify her sources as corporate lobbyists

  boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow

  Sydney Ember is a news reporter who covers Bernie Sanders for the New York Times; her coverage is consistently negative (part of the Times's overall …

• Ian Wilder

  

  The Koch Brothers Want to Prevent Future AOCs

  GQ - By Luke Darby

  The billionaire activists are going to get involved in Democratic primaries to help protect incumbents. Charles and David Koch are probably, justifiably, the richest conservative bogeymen in the U.S. Collectively, they're referred to as the Koch brothers—though that excludes their less notorious …

• https://www.fairvote.org/the_race_for_ranked_choice_voting_reform_key_updates_from_congress_and_state_legislatures

  Ian Wilder

  Mar 13, 2019

• https://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-need-to-get-rid-of-the-electoral-college/

  Ian Wilder

  Feb 2, 2019
• Ian Wilder

  

  Opinion | New study connects white American bigotry with support for authoritarianism

  NBC News - By Noah Berlatsky

  The research suggests that when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy. Since the founding of the United States, politicians and pundits have warned that partisanship is a danger to democracy. George Washington, in his …

• https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/blog/from-murder-capital-to-model-city-the-case-of-medellin/

  Ian Wilder

  May 10, 2018