Journalists and Journalism

Do Russiagate Promoters Prefer Impeaching Trump to Avoiding War With Russia?

Do Russiagate Promoters Prefer Impeaching Trump to Avoiding War With Russia? Do Russiagate Promoters Prefer Impeaching Trump to Avoiding War With Russia?

The year 2018 in the history of the new Cold War.

Dec 19, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Paul Manafort 2018

It’s Time to Demystify Russiagate It’s Time to Demystify Russiagate

There have been endless, bewildering plot twists, but essentially it’s a corruption scandal—one that should bring down Trump’s presidency.

Dec 12, 2018 / David Klion

Reporting Norms Are Never Timeless

Reporting Norms Are Never Timeless Reporting Norms Are Never Timeless

A new history of American newspapers traces today’s debates about journalism to shifts in tech and politics 50 years ago.

Dec 10, 2018 / David Uberti

George HW Bush presidential library

To the White People Who Penned Sweeping Love Letters to George H.W. Bush To the White People Who Penned Sweeping Love Letters to George H.W. Bush

Clearly, you never talked to a person of color about the Bush presidencies.

Dec 10, 2018 / Elie Mystal

Bannon on Hannity

Actual Journalism Is Under an Asymmetrical Attack Actual Journalism Is Under an Asymmetrical Attack

Far-right media isn’t playing by the same rules.

Dec 6, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman

NATO exercise

New Cold War Dangers New Cold War Dangers

The Russian-Ukrainian military conflict in the Kerch Strait illustrates again how this Cold War is more dangerous that was its predecessor.

Dec 5, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

A New Report Charts the Increase in Limitations on Free Speech in Russia

A New Report Charts the Increase in Limitations on Free Speech in Russia A New Report Charts the Increase in Limitations on Free Speech in Russia

The new restrictions are only being applied to critical and independent voices.

Nov 29, 2018 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina

Putin Annual Address

Russian Diplomacy Is Winning the New Cold War Russian Diplomacy Is Winning the New Cold War

Washington’s attempt to “isolate Putin’s Russia” has failed and had the opposite effect. 

Nov 21, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Julian Assange

The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Press Freedom The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Press Freedom

If the First Amendment means anything, it is the right to obtain public-interest information from impure, indeed hopelessly tainted, sources.

Nov 20, 2018 / Bruce Shapiro

Zuckerberg Facebook

Antitrust For The Many, Not The Few Antitrust For The Many, Not The Few

Somebody needs to challenge Facebook's outsized power over the media. It should be a cooperative association, not another unaccountable behemoth.

Nov 20, 2018 / Nathan Schneider

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