Media
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Donald Trump, Rapist-In-Chief
If rape isn’t a “high crime and misdemeanor,” what is? Read more
The Press Under Fire
Trump’s rhetoric is both a cause and a symptom of the danger to U.S. journalists. Read more
Press Freedom Group Takes Trump to Court
“Although the President is free to criticize the press, he cannot use the power and authority of the United States government to punish and stifle it.” Read more
Gage Skidmore
Operation Take Down Bernie
Sanders’s socialism is scary for a Democratic establishment that worries a lot about electability. Cue the media hit pieces. Read more
Richard F. Outcault
Citizen Pulitzer: Patron Saint of the Oppressed
Film Review of “Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People.” Read more
On Journalism, Middle America, and the Stories We Choose to Tell
“Esquire” magazine is under fire for putting a straight, white, Trump-supporting Wisconsin teenager on its cover. But that isn’t the real problem. Read more
Japanexperterna
Foreign Correspondent: Does Cuba Censor the Internet? Think Again.
So far, U.S. government attempts to kickstart a Twitter revolution have failed. Read more
Trump’s Christmas Chaos
Never underestimate Donald Trump’s willingness to pitch the country into chaos. Read more
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Triumph of the Swill: New Doc Puts Roger Ailes in the No Spin Zone
The best exposé on Fox in years dives into its former chief’s history of racism and the sexual misconduct that would ultimately be his undoing. Read more
Free the Free Press from Wall Street Plunderers
Local ownership of the press matters, as some 1,300 of our towns have learned after Wall Street’s corporate demigods of greed swept in to seize their paper, gut its journalistic mission, and devour its assets. Read more
Gage Skidmore
CNN is Doing the Right Thing to Sue Trump
There’s absolutely no reason the network can’t both report on Trump’s daily blunders and also vigorously defend itself when he seeks to punish one of its reporters for doing his job. Read more
The Mark Judge We Knew
Writing for us back in the 1980s, Judge, now a key figure in the Kavanaugh drama, displayed a concern for social justice, and a progressive vision for the world. Read more
Illustrations By Stuart Goldenberg
No Comment
A recent Ipsos poll found that 48 percent of Republicans agree with Trump that the media are “the enemy of the people” and 43 percent think the President “should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior.” Read more
“No Guarantees”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says there’s a whole lot she “can’t guarantee” about her boss. Read more
Mutante
Join the Fight Against Fake News
As the midterm elections approach, we’d better prepare for another misinformation onslaught from Russia, without love. Here’s how. Read more
Remembering Ed Schultz
Ed cared about working people—and was a singular voice for labor rights and social justice. Read more
Mike Licht
Stormy Daniels Is Not Your Stereotype
A porn star has the President in the hot seat—and she’s highlighting that sex workers are, and always have been, key players in the fight for social justice. Read more
