ITT Sound Off: Bad Optics

Published: Jan. 13, 2023, 10:43 p.m.

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Julio and guest co-host Ren\\xe9e Graham, opinion columnist and associate editor at The Boston Globe, get into the implications of classified documents found at President Biden\\u2019s home and former office. They also talk about the severe storms and flooding that have impacted California over the last few weeks and the growing pressure on the Biden administration to expel Brazil\\u2019s former president Jair Bolsonaro, who has been staying in Florida.

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  • Russ Choma writes about Attorney General Merrick Garland\\u2019s decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate the reports that classified documents were found in President Joe Biden\\u2019s post-vice-presidency office and in Biden\\u2019s Delaware home, via Mother Jones.\\xa0

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  • \\u201cThe recent onslaught of atmospheric rivers has underscored the perils of California\\u2019s climate paradox: Rising global temperatures are making the region drier, hotter and more fire-prone, but they also increase the likelihood of sudden, severe rainfall,\\u201d writes Sarah Kaplan for The Washington Post.\\xa0

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  • Jonathan Guyer interviews Rodrigo Nunes, a Brazilian philosophy scholar, about Bolsonarismo and its root causes in this piece for Vox.

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Photo credit: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File

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