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Andy Borowitz | Republicans Blast Nevada Rancher for Failing to Use Commonly Accepted Racial Code Words

Reader Supported News | 27 April 14 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Andy Borowitz | Republicans Blast Nevada Rancher for Failing to Use Commonly Accepted Racial Code Words Andy Borowitz, New Yorker Borowitz writes: "Republican politicians blasted the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy on Thursday for making flagrantly racist remarks instead of employing the subtler racial code words the G.O.P. has been using for decades." READ MORE Bill Moyers' Interview With Naomi Klein Bill Moyers, Moyers and Company Excerpt: "'Let's rebuild by actually getting at the root causes. Let's respond by aiming for an economy that responds to the crisis both [through] inequality and climate change,' Klein tells Bill. 'You know, dream big.'" READ MORE Donald Sterling: Slumlord Billionaire Dave Zirin, The Nation Zirin writes: "It takes a certain flair for racism—a panache for prejudice—to find yourself facing two different racial discrimination lawsuits simultaneously." READ MORE The Media Has a Woman Problem Liza Mundy, The New York Times Mundy writes: "The closer you get to money and power, the more the writers look like the people they are covering." READ MORE Under Fire Over Net Neutrality, FCC Seeks Public Comment Stephen Lawson, PC World Lawson writes: "The FCC's upcoming net neutrality plan has already touched off such a blaze of reaction that the agency has set up an email box where the public can send comments about it." READ MORE How Politics Hijacked the Fight Against Global Warming Lindsay Abrams, Salon Abrams writes: "The problem we're dealing with has also become tied up in matters economic, institutional, moral and ethical in nature — not to mention intractably political." READ MORE Indigenous Tribe Occupies Peru's Biggest Oil Facility, Cutting Output Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America "Oil output at Peru's largest facility has fallen 70 percent since indigenous rights protesters occupied the site on Monday. Native communities blame foreign energy companies like the Argentinian operators of the targeted plant for dozens of crude spills in the Amazon rain forest — some on the territory of remote tribes." READ MORE FOCUS: Charles Pierce | The Comedy Stylings of David Brooks Charles Pierce, Esquire Pierce writes: "'Jesus help me, he's doing stand-up now,' MH writes. 'Every night, he takes out the club's karaoke machine and works on his material. He kills the room here.'" READ MORE