A Press Corps Full of Aunt Lydias A Press Corps Full of Aunt Lydias
Why are so many journalists defending Sarah Huckabee Sanders?
Apr 30, 2018 / Katha Pollitt
To Be a Palestinian Journalist in Gaza Is to Be Always Under Threat To Be a Palestinian Journalist in Gaza Is to Be Always Under Threat
“Everyone is targeted. Even if you’re a journalist.… As long as you are Palestinian and there, you are targeted.”
Apr 27, 2018 / Hamza Saftawi and Miriam Berger
The Very Specific 2006-ishness of Those Alleged Joy Reid Posts The Very Specific 2006-ishness of Those Alleged Joy Reid Posts
I don’t know if Reid wrote the posts in question, but it wouldn’t surprise me if she, or any liberal blogger at the time, had.
Apr 27, 2018 / Richard Kim
Kevin Williamson Is Not a Victim Kevin Williamson Is Not a Victim
The conservative provocateur preaches the importance of taking personal responsibility but blames everyone but himself for his rhetorical excesses.
Apr 26, 2018 / Joshua Holland
This Saudi Blogger Called for Modernization. So Has the Crown Prince. So Why Is the Blogger in Jail? This Saudi Blogger Called for Modernization. So Has the Crown Prince. So Why Is the Blogger in Jail?
If Mohammed bin Salman truly wants to promote freedom of expression, he must release Raif Badawi.
Apr 26, 2018 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Student-Run Newspapers Need Our Help—and They’re Coming Together to Ask for It Student-Run Newspapers Need Our Help—and They’re Coming Together to Ask for It
Independent news organizations at colleges across the US are under threat. The Save Student Newsrooms movement wants to change that.
Apr 25, 2018 / William Anderson
Forgotten Truths: On the Imperative of Cooperating With—Not Criminalizing—Russia Forgotten Truths: On the Imperative of Cooperating With—Not Criminalizing—Russia
Cooperation with Moscow remains vital for American national security, but “Russiagate” allegations, now codified in a DNC lawsuit, are making that decades-long pursuit a crime.
Apr 25, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen
‘Russiagate’ Allegations Continue to Escalate the Danger of War With Russia ‘Russiagate’ Allegations Continue to Escalate the Danger of War With Russia
Incessant Kremlin-baiting of President Trump is risking a Cuban missile–like crisis that he, unlike JFK in 1962, may not be permitted to resolve peacefully.
Apr 18, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen
Break Facebook’s Power and Renew Journalism Break Facebook’s Power and Renew Journalism
We must take the Internet back from monopolies.
Apr 18, 2018 / Feature / Victor Pickard
Lose Newspapers and You Lose Your Democracy Lose Newspapers and You Lose Your Democracy
Without independent journalism, Trump and other charlatans will thrive.
Apr 11, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman