Jim Naureckas on Secret Alito Tape, Kennedy Smith on Dollar Store Invasion
Will elite news media now suggest we just go back to considering the Supreme Court a neutral body, deserving of life terms because they’re above the fray of politics?
Matt Gertz on Trump Trial Verdict, Kandi Mossett on Dakota Access Struggle
It is a moment to examine the right-wing media that have fomented this scary nonsense, but also to look to reporting from the so-called “mainstream” to go beyond the “some say, others differ” pablum we often see.
Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment Dodge
Some courts are indulging the bizarre notion that regulation should be illegal, essentially, because it forces companies to say stuff they’d rather not say.
Ellen Schrecker on the Attack on Academic Freedom
The violent attacks on college students and faculty across the country showcase the abandonment by many educational institutions of their responsibility to protect not only students, but the space in which they can speak and learn freely.
Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency, Ian Vandewalker on Small Donors
The 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through skullduggery–but many people who vote do believe that.
Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah Invasion
US press are so used to driving the narrative they don’t know what to do except yell “shut up shut up shut up” and send in the cops.
Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Racial Justice
Different media, telling different stories, can change our understanding of our past, our present and our future.
Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers
Colleges’ official responses to protests are gutting the notion that elite higher education entails respect for the free expression of ideas.
Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country
The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.
Chris Bernadel on Haiti
What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history.
Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone
Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was whistled past by the press corps.
Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal
A senior UN human rights official says there is a “plausible” case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.
Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts
Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.
Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair, Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction
Industry still argues that that cellphone isn’t really “yours,” in the sense that you can’t fix it if it breaks.
Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders
Donald Trump could declare himself above the law—and that’s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.
Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism
If we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.
Gregory Shupak and Trita Parsi on Gaza Assault
As the US falls more out of step with the world, many in the US press seem divorced from the idea of US responsibility.
Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights
Acheson v. Laufer is another example of “weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.”
Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation
The same people who earn wages also buy groceries, and pretending that we’re pitted against one another is not just mis- but disinformation.
Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff
What if there isn’t a “border crisis” so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing?
