Repealing net neutrality has drawn a huge amount of public visibility—and rightly so—but that decision is just the latest in a string of ominous, industry-friendly giveaways by the Trump administration’s FCC.
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Repealing net neutrality has drawn a huge amount of public visibility—and rightly so—but that decision is just the latest in a string of ominous, industry-friendly giveaways by the Trump administration’s FCC.
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Should the New York Times have disclosed that the author of a piece about government propaganda runs a group overwhelmingly funded by the US government?
Read MoreDecember 13, 2017
At the beginning of December, liberal TV hosts Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow—the anchors of...
Read MoreDecember 11, 2017
Republicans are putting in place a tax plan similar to what they campaigned on. If the fact that it mostly helps the rich is a surprise to anyone, it is due to the poor quality of reporting during the campaign.
Read MoreDecember 8, 2017
By leading with warnings of a “Middle East on edge,” the media double down on dangerous stereotypes, marginalize legitimate frustration and resistance, and obfuscate history in favor of the ever-convenient, shoulder-shrugging, “they’ll just never get along” narrative.
Read MoreDecember 8, 2017
The “boom” following Reagan’s tax cuts was similar to the growth during the Ford/Carter years–which are not generally remembered as a time of great prosperity.
Read MoreDecember 8, 2017
It’s wrong in the ethical sense for the New York Times to implicitly accept as normal politics a refusal to allow democracy to undermine ethnic supremacy.
Read MoreDecember 6, 2017
The GOP bill, passed by the Senate in the early hours of December 2 and described by major media outlets as a “tax cut,” is in reality an explicit handout to large companies and the ultra-rich that will actually increase taxes on working-class Americans.
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What makes Trump’s endorsement news—what justifies the entire reporting of the story—is that Trump is backing someone accused by multiple people, backed by years of circumstantial evidence, of sexual assault and child sexual abuse.
Read MoreDecember 4, 2017
A review of 15 opinion pieces featured in the Washington Post shows voices even remotely sympathetic to the government of President Nicolás Maduro are omitted entirely.
Read MoreNovember 30, 2017
“Lowering taxes is, at heart, what makes a Republican a Republican,” the New York Times told us. The problem with this assertion is that the Republican plans actually raise taxes for close to half of middle-income families.
Read MoreNovember 30, 2017
Both the leadership of the Democratic Party and the “moderate” wing of the Republican Party seem...
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