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Trump’s Prodigious Lying Threatens Our Democracy Trump’s Prodigious Lying Threatens Our Democracy
Even after 10,000 falsehoods, many in the media find themselves unable to call a president who lies a liar.
May 16, 2019 / Column / Eric Alterman
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Facebook Faces Hate Facebook Faces Hate
Zuckerberg under pressure to address his platform’s problem.
May 15, 2019 / OppArt / Randall Enos
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The Race for Global Internet Access Is Not a Zero-Sum Game The Race for Global Internet Access Is Not a Zero-Sum Game
Payal Arora’s The Next Billion Users turns a critical eye to the humanitarian push to connect the globe.
May 14, 2019 / Evan Malmgren
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A Message to Independent Journalists A Message to Independent Journalists
Maybe our job is not to achieve scale, to obey the protocols of the market, but to tip the scale.
May 14, 2019 / Laura Flanders
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A Reporter’s Long, Strange Trip Into the Darkest Parts of the American Mind A Reporter’s Long, Strange Trip Into the Darkest Parts of the American Mind
In Republic of Lies, Anna Merlan documents our age of conspiracy.
May 9, 2019 / Talia Lavin
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Russiagate Zealotry Continues to Endanger American National Security Russiagate Zealotry Continues to Endanger American National Security
If Venezuela becomes a Cuban Missile–like Crisis, will Trump be free to resolve it peacefully?
May 8, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen
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The Cartoon Opposition The Cartoon Opposition
It’s always easier to defeat a caricature.
May 7, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
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Austria’s Far-Right Government Wants to Hobble Critical Media Austria’s Far-Right Government Wants to Hobble Critical Media
The Freedom Party attacks Muslims and cozies up to the extremist Identitarian movement. No wonder it sees independent journalism as a nuisance to be silenced.
May 3, 2019 / Jordan Stancil
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Once Again, Mainstream Media Get It Wrong on Venezuela Once Again, Mainstream Media Get It Wrong on Venezuela
Foreign outlets, dutifully supporting Trump administration calls for regime change, reported that a widespread uprising was underway, even though Juan Guaidó’s coup attempt had lit...
May 2, 2019 / Michael Fox
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Mueller’s Own Mysteries Mueller’s Own Mysteries
Little-noted aspects of the first volume of the Mueller report.
May 1, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen