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Tag: Media

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

Jennifer Zacharia

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

Jules Joanne Gleeson
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.
John Crowley

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

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

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

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

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

Magda Konieczna
How a drug became an object lesson in political tribalism.
James Owen Weatherall, Cailin O’Connor

On the role government should play in times of crisis.

Samuel Clowes Huneke

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

Ben Jackson
The calculus of power isn’t defined by hits or clicks or tweets. It is measured in relationships and meaningful reactions over time.
Michael Gecan

The right’s success in media 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.

Nicole Hemmer

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

Stephen Phelan
How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”
Lawrence B. Glickman

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

Deborah Chasman, Yochai Benkler
We already know how Brett Kavanaugh responds to human suffering.
Sarah Hill

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

Joseph Vogel

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

Daniel Penny

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

Mark Nowak, Vijay Prashad

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.

John Tinnell

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

Tom Rutledge

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

Jonathan Kirshner

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

John Crowley

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

Judith Levine

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