Fake news and “The Death of Truth” – CBS News Watch CBS News As disinformation and conspiracy theories proliferate online in algorithm-fueled chaos, artificial intelligence is making it even harder for us to tell fact from fiction. “Sunday Morning” senior contributor Ted Koppel examines the consequences of fake news on the election with Steven Brill,
We hear all the time about how polarized we’ve become as a nation. When Pew Research asked Americans what one word they would use to describe politics today, the most popular response was “Divisive.” And it is true that conservatives and liberals disagree on the same issues we have for years, from gun control and
Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” … Frank Sinatra in “The Manchurian Candidate” … Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in “All the President’s Men.” Big political movies with big stars have long been part of the Hollywood playbook. Claude Rains and Jimmy Stewart in the 1939 Frank Capra classic, “Mr. Smith Goes to
If the walls of Sandy Senn’s office could talk, they might not have much to say anymore. The South Carolina State Senator is stripping them of their memories. Meanwhile, Senator Katrina Shealy has her 12-year political career all crammed into cardboard boxes. And we found freshman Senator Penry Gustafson sorting through emails from her soon-to-be
Lessons from South Carolina’s “Sister Senators” – CBS News Watch CBS News In South Carolina, three Republican State Senators – Katrina Shealy, Sandy Senn and Penry Gustafson – bucked their party to join Democrat Margie Bright Matthews and Independent Mia McLeod in filibustering their state’s near-total ban on abortion and halting its passage three times.
New team seeks to secure Kennedy ‘a seat at the table at the White House’ and give him a platform to achieve several campaign goals. Intent on helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “get a seat at the table at the White House,” a new political action committee that debuted earlier this week urges supporters of
In 1960, the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy featured the popular song “High Hopes,” with specially-written lyrics sung by Frank Sinatra: K E Double-N E D YJack’s the nation’s favorite guyEveryone wants to back JackJack is on the right track‘Cause he’s got high hopesHe’s got high hopesNineteen Sixty’s the year for his high hopes