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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
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- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorThe authors recount and document the descent into “post-truth” partisan journalism from the alt-right to the right, liberal, and even independent left media, between 2016 and now.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence(For Ferguson, Baltimore, Million Workers March, Arab Spring, Standing Rock, Occupy, Jackson Rising, Fight for Fifteen, Extinction Rebellion, #Me Too…)
- Shaun Ossei-OwusuWhen the dust settles, as in all U.S. disasters, there will be a tale to tell of who mattered and who was sacrificed.
- Erica CainesColonized people, with a horrific historical connection to both science and medicine in this country, must examine science in service of the state.