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A look at the media’s attempts to ‘fact-check’ President Trump’s predictions on the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine shows exactly why journalism is a dying industry. The country’s first Covid-19 vaccines were administered on Monday. President Trump predicted as much prior to the election. The President predicted this day would come in historically record time. “We’re looking to get it by the end of the year if we can, maybe before,” Trump said at a White House event in May. “Vaccine work is looking VERY promising, before end of year,” he tweeted as well. Not wanting the President to celebrate...

The University of Virginia’s Miller Center has announced an oral history project centered around former First Lady Hillary Clinton. The Miller Center describes their Presidential Oral History Program as “a public service endeavor to provide such means and to preserve the true voices of past presidencies for posterity.” While the Center focuses on presidential administrations past, including both Democrats and Republicans, they have stepped out to do oral histories for non-Presidents such as Ted Kennedy and the late Washington attorney, Lloyd Cutler, as well. They find import in Mrs. Clinton, stating there is a “gap” that needs to be addressed...