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• Dan Froomkin

What you need to know (and didn’t read) about Trump’s new tariffs

Starting with how they’re based on a bald-faced lie

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• Dan Froomkin

When fact-checking is not enough

News organizations need to expose Trump’s nefarious motives

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• Dan Froomkin

The headlines should have been: ‘Trump makes crackpot Iran announcement’

Even before Trump reversed himself, there was no chance his 20% toll on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz would ever take effect, and reporters knew it.

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• Dan Froomkin

Say it: We’re back where we were before the ceasefire. It’s called war.

News organizations won’t acknowledge the obvious

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• Dan Froomkin

Trump’s crazed lies about ‘communists’ demand media debunking

But our major news outlets apparently aren’t up to the job.

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• Dan Froomkin

Are we bothsidesing racism now?

Were Trump’s comments about Haitians racist? This is not a tough one.

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• Dan Froomkin

Press corps still gets Trump’s motivation all wrong

The only thing Trump cares about is Trump

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• Dan Froomkin

Stop putting whatever Trump says about Iran in the headlines

Whether it’s TACO or brain rot, what Trump says is almost meaningless

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• Dan Froomkin

Outside Delaney Hall, police clashed with protesters, not the other way around

And the clashes are beside the point, anyway. The real violence is taking place inside.

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