Tag: Media

Condemning U.S. deference to Israel, a cousin remembers the life and legacy of the slain Palestinian American journalist.

A new book offers a compelling, if imperfect, account of the bad feelings with which trans people often struggle.

Images seized from enslaved people are not private property to be owned but ancestors to be cared for.

Public interest journalism may not be salvageable. But more than being saved, it needs to be radically rethought.

Quality news is essential for democracy. We must stage an intervention to save it.

How a drug became an object lesson in political tribalism.

On the role government should play in times of crisis.

With its elite decision-makers and opinion-formers, the Economist has exerted tremendous influence on popular liberal discourse for more than a century.

The right’s success is not a shadowy conspiracy; it has been achieved out in the open, largely through ordinary politics. Much of it can be countered the same way.

Why don’t we make movies about nuclear war anymore? 

Yochai Benkler argues that the mainstream media is our best hope for tempering the radical right. 

His book about the Atlanta child murders speaks best to the era of Black Lives Matter.

The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque.

Vijay Prashad on writing, struggle, and hope in difficult times.

Walden is often championed as an anti-technology manifesto. But this misses the value Thoreau found in conversations spread across vast spans of time and distance.

Of the pioneers who drove the information technology revolution, Claude Shannon may have been the most brilliant.

A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.

A biography of Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the Futurama, tells the story of American innovation.

Why did the alt-right, so eager to excuse Milo Yiannopoulos, finally turn on him?