WaPo: ‘The plot just thickened on William Barr and the Mueller Report’

WaPo: ‘The plot just thickened on William Barr and the Mueller Report’: William Barr went overboard minimizing the results of the Mueller report, so that Trump could take a victory lap and Drudge could proclaim “Trump Wins!” in a banner headline. Unfortunately, he went too far and now there’s a backlash.

WATCH: Beto O’Rourke slams Trump’s rhetoric as ‘something we might’ve expected to hear in Nazi Germany’

WATCH: Beto O’Rourke slams Trump’s rhetoric as ‘something we might’ve expected to hear in Nazi Germany’: 'What other country on the face of the planet does that kind of thing?'
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke was questioned by a reporter Thursday night after he told an audience that some of President Donald Trump's comments echo the rhetoric of Nazi Germany’s “Third Reich.”

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Artificial intelligence can now emulate human behaviors – soon it will be dangerously good

Artificial intelligence can now emulate human behaviors – soon it will be dangerously good: When artificial intelligence systems try to behave like humans and make mistakes, they show their limits – but also their startling advances.

‘Tide has turned’ against Bill Barr as GOP lawmakers increasingly back away from Trump’s hand-picked AG: NBC analyst

‘Tide has turned’ against Bill Barr as GOP lawmakers increasingly back away from Trump’s hand-picked AG: NBC analyst: NBC News national affairs analyst John Heileman explained how Attorney General Bill Barr is losing the support of Senate Republicans on MSNBC's 'The Last Word' on Thursday.

Host Lawrence O'Donnell showed a tweet by Sen. Chuck Grassley:

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/11138068057155747

Republicans are flailing on health care because they backed themselves into a corner with no hope of escape

Republicans are flailing on health care because they backed themselves into a corner with no hope of escape: Republicans in the Senate breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday as President Donald Trump backed away from his push to bring forward a GOP health care plan in the next two years. But their relief is ill-founded, and no matter what Trump does, it's hard to see how they aren't completely cornered on the h

http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/three-teachers-one-test-question-will-their.html

http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/three-teachers-one-test-question-will-their.html

Rachel Maddow is wrong and right: The problem with trying to be Fox News for the Left

Rachel Maddow is wrong and right: The problem with trying to be Fox News for the Left: The mediasphere’s gleeful pummeling of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in the days following #MuellerTime makes me recall two prescient columns written by fellow TV critic Tim Goodman.

The first, published while the hangover from Trump’s election was still fresh in November 2016, wears this headline: “In O

http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/three-teachers-one-test-question-will-their.html

http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/three-teachers-one-test-question-will-their.html

MSNBC host erupts at a Trump defender trying to excuse the president’s Nazi-style rhetoric

MSNBC host erupts at a Trump defender trying to excuse the president’s Nazi-style rhetoric: MSNBC host Christ Hayes unleashed on conservative columnist Matt Mackowiak Thursday evening on Twitter for defending some of President Donald Trump's worst and most vile rhetoric.

The back-and-forth began when Mackowiak tweeted a story from The Washington Free Beacon about presidential candidate

Religion can conflict with the demands of human rights — and sometimes it has to lose

Religion can conflict with the demands of human rights — and sometimes it has to lose: Bethany Hastie, University of British Columbia and Margot Young, University of British Columbia

From conflicts over wedding cakes to university admissions to religious schools, the tension between equality rights and religious freedom is often in the news in Canada, the United States and beyond.