AT&T-Time Warner Merger If AT&T figures out a way to use its control over major broadband networks to give HBO and Warner Bros. content a leg up over content from other companies, that’s going to put independent content companies at a systematic disadvantage in the marketplace. That, say critics like Sen. Bernie Sanders, would be bad news for consumers, Vox reported. “We must reject the AT&T-Time Warner merger,” Sanders told The Washington Post. “We need more diverse media ownership, not less.”

Drug Industry Sanders took another swing at the pharmaceutical industry on Tuesday, calling out drug companies for spending more on marketing and sales than research and development, ATTN reported.

Tom Hayden Tom Hayden’s image, as that of a 1960s radical and ringleader of the antiwar protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, comes from an era that for many Americans feels like ancient history. Hayden’s legacy is one that is still felt today in the activism of liberal groups from Occupy Wall Street to the insurgent campaign of Sanders, The Boston Globe reported.

Editorial: Accountability for Obamacare ”So now the liberal line is that ObamaCare has a few problems, but don’t worry: The same geniuses who wrote the law know how to fix it,” The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board wrote. “The Bernie Sanders-Elizabeth Warren left wants a new “public option,” higher subsidies, more price controls and even more intrusive regulatory control. Hillary Clinton has endorsed all of this.” 

Column: The Center Left and Right ”In truth, Bernie Sanders’s movement fractured the Democratic Party almost as much as Trump did the G.O.P., but that fissure has been temporarily plastered over by the overriding need to defeat Trump,” Thomas Friedman wrote in The New York Times. “If Clinton wins, that fissure will quickly reopen and some basic questions will have to be answered.”

Column: AT&T Faces Political Opposition “AT&T is running corporate finance smack into a populist uprising. The company’s proposed $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner would consolidate an industry already controlled by a small group of companies. It is the sort of concentrated power that helped give rise to opponents like Donald J. Trump and Bernie Sanders,“ China Chon wrote for The New York Times.

Column: Progressive Answer to Trumpism “A serious progressive agenda should grapple with the grave challenges that many Trump supporters face. To that end, Sen. Bernie Sanders — who won strong support from working-class whites in the primaries — offered a useful blueprint,” Katrina vanden Heuvel wrote for The Washington Post. “To start, we need a more progressive trade policy that gives priority to working people over corporate lobbyists and profits.”

World

Calais Migrant Camp Demolished As French authorities began demolishing parts of the notorious “Jungle” camp Tuesday, hundreds of migrants lined up with all of their possessions for transport to asylum centers elsewhere in France. More than 2,500 migrants have left the camp since Monday, The Washington Post reported.

National 

PhRMA Gets Cash Influx The pharmaceutical lobby is requiring member companies to fork over an additional $100 million per year as the industry gears up for a bruising post-election battle over drug prices, Politico reported. PhRMA's decision to hike membership dues 50 percent will increase the trade group's considerable coffers to more than $300 million per year.

Trump Halts Big-Money Fundraising Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has effectively shut down his high-dollar fundraising operation for the rest of the campaign, a highly unusual move that deals another serious blow to the GOP's effort to finance its get-out-the-vote operation before Election Day, The Washington Post reported.

Vermont 

First Amendment The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont is arguing that the criminal prosecution of a man who distributed Ku Klux Klan fliers in Burlington last year would narrow First Amendment freedom of speech, The Burlington Free Press reported.