News Deserts Are Obscuring the Breadth of Climate Disasters News Deserts Are Obscuring the Breadth of Climate Disasters
Bootstrapped publications like mine do their best to keep the news alive in communities now struggling just to survive.
May 15, 2024 / Jane Braxton Little
How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists
A tranche of 4,700 subpoenaed e-mails reveals the ways in which fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they all too often succeed.
May 15, 2024 / Molly Taft
The Media Keeps Asking the Wrong Questions About Biden and the “Uncommitted” Vote The Media Keeps Asking the Wrong Questions About Biden and the “Uncommitted” Vote
Expecting voters to support the person with the power to stop the killing of their families, but who refuses to use it, is asking the impossible. This is about now, not November.
May 14, 2024 / Phyllis Bennis
Marty Peretz and the Travails of American Liberalism Marty Peretz and the Travails of American Liberalism
From his New Left days to his neoliberalism and embrace of interventionism, The Controversialist is a portrait of his own political trajectory and that of American liberalism too....
May 14, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jeet Heer
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Brain Became the Diet of Worms How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Brain Became the Diet of Worms
Can a presidential candidate afford to lose gray matter to parasites?
May 9, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Student Journalists Are Needed Now More Than Ever Student Journalists Are Needed Now More Than Ever
While the mainstream media repeatedly mischaracterizes pro-Palestine protests on campus, police and university administrations are attempting to repress the student press.
May 8, 2024 / StudentNation / Amber X. Chen
Biden Must Condemn Israel’s Attack on Al Jazeera—Now Biden Must Condemn Israel’s Attack on Al Jazeera—Now
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government shut down the network’s operations in Israel. Press freedom advocates are raising an outcry, and Americans should back them up.
May 7, 2024 / John Nichols
Save Us All From The Atlantic’s Protest Coverage Save Us All From The Atlantic’s Protest Coverage
The magazine has unleashed its top writers on the Palestine student movement. The results have been as dire as you might imagine.
May 6, 2024 / Chris Lehmann
Campus Protesters Were Right to Spurn Peggy Noonan, Emblem of Media Obtuseness Campus Protesters Were Right to Spurn Peggy Noonan, Emblem of Media Obtuseness
Our narcissistic media elite doesn’t understand why their lies have made young people wary.
May 6, 2024 / Jeet Heer
The Week That Student Journalists Put the Rest of the Media to Shame The Week That Student Journalists Put the Rest of the Media to Shame
Young reporters at WKCR showed what real journalism is all about while their cable news counterparts were uncritically passing along propaganda.
May 3, 2024 / Zito Madu