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EDITORIAL: The Iran Crisis ModState Podcast Host and Associate Editor Nate Wellein brings a strong dose of calm, collected sensibility amidst a very volatile global situation.

Flag of Iran waving at sunset in their capital city, Tehran.

As I frequent news and social media sites after the assassination of General Soleimani, I notice again the divide that afflicts America. At ModState,..................   read more

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Political Beast: “Bulletins”

To say something needs no introduction begs the question, “So, why the [expletive deleted] are you introducing it, then?!” As a bastion of the independent media, however, with..................   read more

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Black History Month: Being About It

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Richard Milhous Nixon

Talking about what might’ve been and thinking about what used to be only goes so far. Certainly not one opposed to reminiscing, I was wracked with grief over the comments
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Fabriquè en Babylon: Evil (Fifteen Years On)

“Oh my God, Emily…you are such a liar!”

This was the opening sequence of a night no one in The Smith household had foreseen coming, but things
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