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Trent Nelson

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As seen in: Mid-West Family Broadcasting, MSN Singapore, Sex and the State, Royal Blue Mersey, Pain In The Arsenal, WMAY-AM (Springfield, IL), Yorkshire Bylines, Transatlantic Today
Covers:  Current events, politics, history, culture, society, domestic and foreign policy, government, economics, soccer, fiction, poetry, food, investigations, interviews, and more.
Writer, editor, historian, commentator, podcaster, philosopher and poet; I like soccer & literature too....AV Editor for @LiberalCurrents, etc.

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I’m a managing editor, and I write all over too.

I cover current events, politics, history, culture, society, domestic and foreign policy, government, economics, soccer, fiction, poetry, food, investigations and interviews.

I take pictures and speak as well.

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Author page for Trent R Nelson at WMAY

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Trent R. Nelson’s author page with Liberal Currents

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Essay Archives - A Smoke and a Chat

Essay Archives - A Smoke and a Chat

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Trent R. Nelson’s author page for The Editorial Board

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Trent R Nelson’s author page at AlterNet

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Half the Answer #25: Still Talking About Epstein

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By Caitlin Green, Trent Nelson Verified, Greg Sargent Verified
| liberalcurrents.com
halftheanswer — 1 min read Trent and Caitlin talk to Greg Sargent, journalist and podcaster with The New Republic, about recent stories including the striking failure of the president to be cool about the newest round of Jeffrey Epstein news, the bizarre time dilation of being a conservative, and the childish insistence that every bad thing on the right is because of an overreach on the left. Half the Answer can be heard on Spotify, on Apple, on YouTube, on Amazon, and elsewhere via its RSS feed.
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Fukuyama Fails to Answer the Basic Questions of Liberal Political Theory

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By Samantha Hancox-Li, Caitlin Green, Trent Nelson Verified, Toby Buckle
| liberalcurrents.com
If Francis Fukuyama knew that his 1989 provocatively titled article for The National Interest would become the moment for some of the most intense discussion in global political theory, he doesn’t show it in the text itself.
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House fire in Chatham on Saturday leaves structural damage to residence, while family are all safe and accounted for

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By Trent Nelson Verified
| WMAY-AM (Springfield, IL) Verified
Chatham Fire responded to a fire with “heavy” smoke just before noon on Saturday in the 600 block of Williamson Ave. When crews arrived, they found that one of the units on the second story was showing heavy smoke. When firefighters arrived, everyone in the home was accounted for; they immediately began to work on extinguishing the fire thereafter and got it under control within 15 minutes.
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