Tag: Missouri

Exclusive: Without evidence, JD Vance suggests to St. Louis far-right publication that President Biden opened border to bring in fentanyl to kill MAGA voters

By Paul Wagman JD Vance, the Republican candidate for vice president, suggested two years ago that President Joe Biden seemed to be deliberately keeping the U.S. southern border open so fentanyl could be smuggled into the country to kill Republican voters, a video posted on the Gateway Pundit website shows.   The April 2022 interview took

EXCLUSIVE: Missouri hides more court information than other states

By William H. Freivogel and Ted Gest A new Missouri law passed last year deletes the names of victims and witnesses in court documents making Missouri courts the least transparent in the nation, experts say. Among the witness names deleted are police officers. Eugene Volokh, a nationally known libertarian legal commentator, called the law “a

Newspapers are vanishing, leaving democracy at risk

Newspapers are dying. Young people aren’t reading them. Predatory hedge funds are buying them up, laying off reporters, milking them for profits and cutting home delivery. The result is that democracy is losing its eyes and ears and maybe its conscience.  That was a theme of Rick Goldsmith’s new documentary on the predatory consequences of

Lee Enterprises after Alden

“The model is simple,” declared The Atlantic in its cover story for the November 2021 issue. “Gut the staff, sell the real estate, jack up subscription prices, and wring out as much cash as possible.” The author of the piece, Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins, was writing about Alden Global Capital LLC, the widely-feared buyout