Tag: Media

Jennifer Zacharia

For Shireen Abu Akleh

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

Jules Joanne Gleeson

In Defense of Transnormativity

Theorist Hil Malatino offers a compelling account of the persistent bad feelings with which trans people often struggle—but it comes with fashionable academic hang-ups that need to be reconsidered.

John Crowley

Simon Stålenhag’s Alternate Histories

Amazon’s Tales from the Loop has introduced a new audience to the speculative worlds of the Swedish artist, whose books depict worlds in which humanity has, in one way or another, run afoul of technology.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

The Captive Photograph

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

Kevin M. Lerner

The News Is Dead, Long Live the News!

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

C. Thi Nguyen

Polarization or Propaganda?

Two theories paint very different pictures of the sources of our democratic dysfunction. The debate won’t be settled by accusations of political convenience.

Magda Konieczna

Why We Need Public Journalism

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

James Owen Weatherall, Cailin O’Connor

Hydroxychloroquine and the Political Polarization of Science

How a drug became an object lesson in political tribalism.

Samuel Clowes Huneke

An End to Totalitarianism

Fixating on whether Trump’s response to COVID-19 is totalitarian makes it difficult to have a nuanced discussion about the role government should play in times of crisis.

Ben Jackson

Whose Liberalism?

With its elite decision-makers and opinion-formers—and over 1.5 million copies sold per week—the Economist has exerted tremendous influence on popular liberal discourse for more than a century.

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