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Is it me, or has politics taken over nearly every video game with a chat component? Even with Election Day officially over (even if we dont quite know who our next president will be), I doubt Ive seen the last of TRUMP 2020, MAGA, or worse within World of Warcrafts…
The last four years have felt like the never-ending panic of treading water in a shark-infested ocean. Waiting for election results now feels nothing short of drowning. Perhaps most terrifying of all, though, is the realization that regardless of what happens next, the only thing that we know for sure…
And people rarely restrict themselves to believing a single conspiracy theory; they usually come in clusters. Soon enough, they become the prism through which budding conspiracists see the world. Of course, there is an allure to conspiracy theories; they provide their followers with a sense of control, certainty and the…
John Avlon is a CNN senior political analyst. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. View more opinions at CNN. (CNN)Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan dispatched President Jimmy Carter with a simple question to the American people: “Are you better off now than you were four years…
image captionDr Fauci said Mr Trump was looking at the pandemic from the perspective of “the economy and reopening the country” The White House has accused leading infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci of playing politics days before the election in an interview about the coronavirus pandemic. Dr Fauci told the…
Over all, he thinks the reaction to the virus was overkill, but he also thinks Mr. Trump was wrong to suggest it was nothing to worry about. He did a terrible job, Mr. Lohoefer said of Mr. Trumps handling of the pandemic. But everybody did a terrible job. As the…
A decade later, when the younger Bush ran against John Kerry, he took a similar tack: He taunted his opponent for speaking French and painted him as an out-of-touch aristocrat even as he tried to present himself as a war president. This happens all the time, said Tristan Bridges, an…
