Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?
The Kicker1 Elo 2025

Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?

For the past few weeks, MAGA media and conservative podcasters have been torn apart over President Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein saga. Anna Merlan, a senior reporter at Mother Jones, joins The Kicker to talk about right-wing media’s efforts to change the subject—and whether their audiences will go along with it. Read more: *Anna Merlan on what happened the last time Trump’s team tried to satisfy right-wing media’s hunger for Epstein news *Merlan on how Trump has constructed a ...

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America does not know what a mass shooting looks like

America does not know what a mass shooting looks like

In August 2019, days after 32 people died in the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, our host Kyle Pope spoke with John Temple. Temple was the editor of Denver’s Rocky Mountain News when the Columbine ...

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Racism, Atlanta, and the race for a narrative

Racism, Atlanta, and the race for a narrative

In the wake of the shootings in Atlanta this week, the media has focused on the killer’s story and struggled to explain why the attacks were racist. The process has dehumanized the victims.On this wee...

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Pandemic: Why is it so hard to say there’s hope?

Pandemic: Why is it so hard to say there’s hope?

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, most media coverage has focused on the ongoing physical health disaster and the need to convince readers and elected officials to take action. But the cov...

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Toxic: A break in the Cuomo fever dream

Toxic: A break in the Cuomo fever dream

Refusing to learn female reporters’ names, to speak on the record, to refrain from embarrassing comments. The Andrew Cuomo that political reporters know is entirely different from the pandemic persona...

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Michael Tubbs on the politics of disinformation, racism, and news deserts

Michael Tubbs on the politics of disinformation, racism, and news deserts

Last year, Michael Tubbs was the focus of an HBO documentary, "Stockton On My Mind," that followed his experience trying to reinvent Stockton, California as the city’s first African-American mayor. Wi...

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Myanmar Now: How to run a paper in the middle of a coup

Myanmar Now: How to run a paper in the middle of a coup

Burmese journalist Swe Win has survived an assasination attempt and detention by his own government. Now he leads his Yangon-based news outlet Myanmar Now from exile, and his newsroom is in hiding.On ...

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Kathleen Belew and the white power groundswell

Kathleen Belew and the white power groundswell

On this week’s Kicker, Kathleen Belew, a historian at the University of Chicago and author of Bring The War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (2018), joins Kyle Pope, editor and ...

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GameStop, Reddit, and who hacked the system

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