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As media scholars have long called for, it is time to challenge the US outlet's status as a newspaper of record on the Middle East due to its long-standing pro-Israel bias

The American Sociological Association will honor Princeton professor Viviana Zelizer with its highest honor, the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award.

After repeated reports of ethics violations by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a Senate panel plans to review ethics standards for Supreme Court justices.

Were happy going into the midterm season. >> by the way, i left out "w." you probably as well. because of the unique situation of september 11 which queued the whole situation. in your piece at cnn.com you said when obama left he had a 59% approval rating. professor zelizer, is it possible for anybody in this climate to get to 59%? >> yeah, thats a great question and im not sure. i do think thats a place where the total polarization that were seeing makes it hard for any president of either wate...

Strong. when we get past covid, the presidents unforced errors may be forgotten. and people may again vote with their wallets. but for right now, his mistakes and the pandemic loom large. i want to know what you think. go to my website somers.com and answer this weeks survey question, will biden bounce back? my cnn colleague julian zelizer wrote an essay at cnn.com under the head line can biden presidency doomed? his answer is no. he points to history where many presidents have faced this stage ...

Rick LoomisGetty Images In 1933, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed 15 major pieces of legislation and 76 laws during his first 100 days in office. By today’s standards—given, you know, any laws—those numbers sound mind-blowing. But part of the reason FDR was able to be so productive was because the U.S. was in crisis. He was dealing with the Great Depression, and that sense of emergency allowed him to take swift action with the aim of pulling the country out of economic ch...

Metrics for that, but ill take it for trump personally, i think hope hicks leaving is going to hit him hard. she had been with him since the beginning of the campaign. theres just one other person in the white house who has been with him that long. and so, you know, he is increasingly isolated. morale is really bad in the white house. and without, you know, that one other person to control trump he may be increasingly volatile. for trump himself her departure is pretty bad. >> professor zelizer,...

That, you know, northeastern liberal establishment. >> yeah. no downside for him at all. the press will cover it a little bit. his supporters will think its funny or just ignore it completely. you know, this week that we were talking about, you know, any other presidency it would be considered a disastrous week but like everyone has been saying hes had so many of these weeks that in a lot of ways its more noise, just another week in his presidency. >> julian zelizer, as you look back on the week...

Could really be a disaster for this administration would come from special prosecutor robert mueller. i want to know what you think. politically speaking, politically speaking, was this past week a disaster for president trump? joining me now, salena zito who writes for "the new york post." julian zelizer a professor at princeton university. the aforementioned harry enten, writer and analyst and amanda terkel, washington bureau chief for the huffington post. harry, explain the numbers to me, wha...

Analyst julian zelizer. first, brian, to you. what exactly do we know about the circumstances of his death? had he been ill? what has he been doing recently? >> we know very little. he had been ill for a number of years, even before he resigned in disgrace last summer he had been ill, but we dont know the specifics about the cause of death. >> and professor zelizer, you have an op ed on cnn.com talking about the role that roger ailes had in reshaping not just the media landscape, but the politic...