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Podcast: Richard Helppie's Common Bridge
Episode: Episode 302- Seeing Clearly: Journalism Without Gatekeepers. With Chris Bray
Description: What if the cure for our political fatigue is as simple as slowing down and looking at the evidence? We kick off a new series spotlighting Substack writers with journalist and historian Chris Bray, whose work strips away spin by linking directly to source documents, video and on-the-ground reporting. Together we map the contours of an epistemic crisis: the way one angle of footage becomes the entire narrative and how that snap judgment fuels outrage, policy mistakes, and deeper division.From there we follow the money. California and Minnesota have seen explosive growth in public spending, but...