Within a few hours, Eastman’s op-ed was being brandished by President Trump, who told reporters he had “heard” Harris may not be eligible to serve. It was, as many pointed out, a racist attack with no constitutional merit, on par with the birther conspiracy theory that claimed Barack Obama was born in Kenya. An op-ed written by John Eastman, a conservative lawyer and founding director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, coyly suggested that Kamala Harris, who was born in California, may not be eligible to serve as vice president because her parents were immigrants. Last week, Newsweek suggested one possible purpose: The legitimization of narratives straight out of the right-wing fever swamps. “While the name Newsweek still carries a certain authority-remnants of its status as a legacy outlet-and the magazine can still bag an impressive interview now and then, it serves an opaque purpose in the media landscape.” “Nobody I spoke to for this article had a sense of why Newsweek exists,” Tovrov wrote. All that was left was clickbait, op-eds from the likes of Nigel Farage and Newt Gingrich, and a general sense of drift. It also published four English-language international editions and several local-language editions, including Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.Writing in The Columbia Journalism Review last year, Daniel Tovrov depicted Newsweek, once one of America’s most distinguished magazines, as a shell of its former self.
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