Media Analysis

John Brennan

What the Brennan Affair Really Reveals What the Brennan Affair Really Reveals

Valorizing an ex-CIA director and bashing Trump obscures what is truly ominous.

Aug 22, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Mark Zuckerberg testifies to Congress

The Right Is Working the Ref Yet Again. This Time on Facebook—and It’s Working. The Right Is Working the Ref Yet Again. This Time on Facebook—and It’s Working.

Facebook caves to conservative critics by embracing Fox-friendly “news.”

Aug 16, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman

Russia Sanctions Currency Exchange

Sanction Mania vs. Russia Sanction Mania vs. Russia

For nearly 100 years, Russia has been under US sanctions, often to the detriment of American national security.

Aug 15, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

This One Time, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Won’t Back Up Trump

This One Time, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Won’t Back Up Trump This One Time, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Won’t Back Up Trump

The press secretary won’t deny that Trump used the N-word. Still, will it matter?

Aug 15, 2018 / Joan Walsh

The Nation 100th Anniversary cover

In Memoriam: Richard Clark Sterne, Historian of ‘The Nation’ In Memoriam: Richard Clark Sterne, Historian of ‘The Nation’

An avid Nation reader since boyhood, Sterne, who died at 91, wrote an early account of the magazine.

Jul 31, 2018 / Richard Kreitner

Daily News Tronc Layoffs

These Are the Worst of Times for American Journalism These Are the Worst of Times for American Journalism

Newsroom layoffs at the New York Daily News and papers nationwide remind us that things are going from bad to worse.

Jul 25, 2018 / John Nichols

Journalism in the Age of Trump: What’s Missing and What Matters

Journalism in the Age of Trump: What’s Missing and What Matters Journalism in the Age of Trump: What’s Missing and What Matters

Has the preoccupation with the president pushed aside other urgent stories?

Jul 19, 2018 / Feature / Michael Massing

Seymour Hersh with The Dark Side of Camelot

Seymour Hersh Against the World Seymour Hersh Against the World

Our most valuable living investigative reporter disdained those who cozied up to power.

Jul 18, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman

Trump and Putin Billboard

Trump as New Cold War Heretic Trump as New Cold War Heretic

The president has broken with the nearly 20-year orthodoxy of blaming Russia alone for today’s post-Soviet confrontations.

Jul 18, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Patty and Jerry Wetterling

Sex, Race, and the Law: Considering America ‘In the Dark’ Sex, Race, and the Law: Considering America ‘In the Dark’

Madeleine Baran’s stunning investigative podcast grapples with our so-called “justice” system.

Jul 18, 2018 / Steven W. Thrasher

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