Katrina vanden Heuvel: Why Write About Politics? Katrina vanden Heuvel: Why Write About Politics?
In an age of political discourse confined to partisan squabbling, social justice movements and ideas demand attention.
May 22, 2013 / Press Room
Obama’s Assault on the Press Obama’s Assault on the Press
Prosecution of whistleblowers, dragnet seizure of phone records, the threatened criminalization of basic news-gathering—it’s dangerous for the media, and dangerous for ...
May 22, 2013 / The Editors
The AP’s Privacy, and Ours The AP’s Privacy, and Ours
The uproar over government searches of media phone records should not obscure the deeper problem—the law’s failure to protect the privacy of all of us in the digital ag...
May 22, 2013 / David Cole
Ron Fournier, Doomsayer Ron Fournier, Doomsayer
Reports of President Obama’s demise turn out to be greatly exaggerated.
May 22, 2013 / Column / Eric Alterman
Fighting Facebook, a Campaign for a People’s Terms of Service Fighting Facebook, a Campaign for a People’s Terms of Service
Social media companies say consumers’ loss of privacy is just the cost of doing business. But what would happen if they actually had to bargain with users on equal footing?
May 22, 2013 / Ari Melber, Woodrow Hartzog, and Evan Selinger
Attacks From Within: On Janet Malcolm Attacks From Within: On Janet Malcolm
The war between democracy and aristocracy in Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts.
May 21, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Mark Oppenheimer
Farai Chideya: Is Journalism Going the Way of the GOP? Farai Chideya: Is Journalism Going the Way of the GOP?
Journalism has a class and color crisis. How can it be solved?
May 21, 2013 / Press Room
Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You
Yahoo isn’t buying the blogging service for its profitability. It’s buying it for the advertising possibilities.
May 21, 2013 / Robert Scheer
‘Our Liberty Cannot Be Guarded but by the Freedom of the Press’ ‘Our Liberty Cannot Be Guarded but by the Freedom of the Press’
Libertarian Republicans and progressive Democrats are moving to restore privacy rights in light of revelations of Department of Justice threats to press freedom.
May 21, 2013 / John Nichols
Class and ‘The Great Gatsby’ Class and ‘The Great Gatsby’
Some things haven’t changed that much since the Jazz Age.
May 17, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Dean