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The Iowa caucus smartphone app disaster, explained
Turns out using an app to tally election results wasn’t such a good idea.
The 2020 Iowa caucuses should be the last
The Iowa caucuses are a terrible, anti-democratic disaster even when they do count the votes.
Baghdadi, Iran, and trade: What Trump will boast about at the State of the Union
Expect Trump to claim he’s the world’s tough guy.
By
Alex Ward
Why the Iowa results are taking so long
The state party says a smartphone app "coding" problem is partly to blame.
By
Zack Beauchamp, Cameron Peters, and 1 other
Trump’s post-Iowa caucuses messaging is a bad omen for 2020
The Iowa debacle played right into Trump’s conspiratorial hands.
By
Aaron Rupar
YouTube makes $15 billion a year from ads — and pays more than half of that to video makers
Influencers, giant TV companies, and everyone in between gets a cut.
By
Peter Kafka
The Democratic primary has a legitimacy problem
The Iowa results debacle has undermined faith in the entire primary process — and that’s really, really dangerous.
China’s draconian response to the new coronavirus, explained by a China expert
"I’m most concerned about the unintended consequences."
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Julia Belluz