Early Addition: Wall Street Journal Opinion Writers Dismiss Fact-Checking Concerns As 'Cancel Culture'

Jake Offenhartz

Published Oct 23, 2020

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Jake Offenhartz

Published Oct 23, 2020

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No, Trump didn't "pivot" at last night's debate. "While Trump didn’t foam at the mouth," Alex Shephard writes for the New Republic, "his performance was still pathological."
Mitch McConnell declined to answer his questions about his health after appearing in public this week with a visibly bruised face and bandaged, purple hands.
A middle school student in California was threatened with arrest for missing 90 minutes of Zoom school.
Motherboard ranked Black Mirror's dystopian plot lines by how likely they are to actually happen.
Over at Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, a skirmish is heating up between the paper's reporters and opinion desk, whose members claim that allegations of inaccuracy are actually "cancel culture."
A 25-year-old Republican candidate for Congress says he's not racist despite writing some shockingly racist things on a website.
LA Times film critic Kenneth Turan on the joys of watching Tenet in an eerie, empty Montana theatre.
A sweet Vows column about a couple who met at Dunkin' Donuts and also got married there.
"Getting Into Knives," the newest release from the Mountain Goats, is out today and excellent.
And finally, sometimes all we need is a helping hand.

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