Experienced baseball fans are familiar with the proverbial trade of major league players where one player is sent to another team in exchange for “a player to be named later.” On Dec. 1, before a...
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Project Censored's co-directors, Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, title their introduction to this year's edition of State of the Free Press, "A Return to News Normalcy?" drawing a direct parallel between our world today to that of post-World War I America, "When the United States faced another raging pandemic and economic recession," with other sources of tumult as well: "The United States then had experienced a crackdown on civil liberties and free speech in the form of Espionage and Sedition Acts; racial tensions flared during the Red Summer of 1919 as violence erupted from Chicago to Tulsa; Prohibition was the law of the land; and the first wave of U.S. feminism ended with the passage of the 19th Amendment." At the time, they noted, "People yearned for a return to 'normalcy,' as then-presidential hopeful Warren G. Harding proclaimed."
