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About Claire Potter

Co-Executive Editor, Public Seminar | Professor of History at The New School for Social Research | Author of "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020)

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