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The battle-scarred home in Kibbutz Be’eri, in Israel near the Gaza border, where Hamas held more than a dozen hostages when it overran southern Israel on October 7,
2023
What Really Happened on October 7?: A new documentary from Al Jazeera cuts through the ecosystem of disinformation and Israeli propaganda to try to determine what really happened
on October 7th. Read Maureen Tkacik's review of the documentary, which premiered on YouTube this week.
Landmark's Settlement Breaks Up the Real Estate Cartel: The
National Association of Realtors has agreed to end the practice of six percent agent commissions, which could drop US commissions by as much as 30 percent and lower home prices by thousands of dollars. David Dayen has the story.
The Disinformation Gap Between Talk and
Action: U.S. policymakers have said much about the impact of disinformation on our electorate. It's time for them to pass comprehensive regulation that actually matches their rhetoric, Gabrielle Gurley argues.
How the Welfare State Fails the Poor: Our welfare programs shame the poor and withhold essential services, while Wall Street gets trillion dollar bailouts. It doesn't have to be that way, Robert Kuttner writes in his review of the new documentary The Barber of Little Rock. The Self-Funding 'Victim' of the Criminal Justice System: In trying to distinguish himself from his opponent, former prosecutor Angela Alsobrooks, Maryland Senate candidate David Trone is casting himself
as a victim of the criminal justice system—although his run-ins with the law were for business violations. Luke Goldstein has the story.
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