James Fallows: “The Media Learned Nothing from 2016”
James Fallows wrote a fascinating article in The Atlantic about the media and its coverage of the election. Journalists are so accustomed to “both-sides-ism” that...
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Federal Judge Denies Trump-Barr Request to Block Publication of Bolton Book
A federal judge in D.C. denied the Trump administration effort to block publication of John Bolton’s book. The book will be officially published on Tuesday....
An Open Letter to the New New Left from the Old New Left: Vote for Biden
Veterans of the political struggles of the 1960s explain in this open letter published in The Nation why they will vote for Joe Biden. In...
Update: Wall Street Journal: Trump’s Daily Briefings Are a Waste of Time
Read the new ending to this post. Trump tweeted a response. The Wall Street Journal offered some useful advice to Trump. Given his ego and...
If Hedge Funds Gobble Up the Free Press, Will Freedom of the Press Survive?
The New York Times reported on a huge merger of newspapers. In August, Gannett, the parent company of USA Today and more than 100 other...
Mark Zuckerberg Is Advising a Democratic Candidate
Masha Gessen, a Russian emigre and journalist, always has interesting commentaries on U.S. politics. In this New Yorker article, she writes about Mark Zuckerberg and...
Ohio: Thanks to Generosity of Our Readers, Student Journalists Will Attend Ravitch-Phillis Dialogue
Do you remember when high school student journalists were not allowed admission to a “Roundtable” between Betsy DeVos and Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin? The...
Expose: Trump’s Obsession with the Russia Investigation
The two men believed that Republican leaders, who publicly praised the appointment of Mr. Mueller, had been beaten into a defensive crouch by the unending...
FDR: His “Economic Bill of Rights”
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his State of the Union address on January 11, 1944. Seventy-five years ago today. He included what was then called...
I Am Thankful for Freedom of the Press
Over the past three years, we have heard it said repeatedly by a politician named Trump that the free press is the “enemy of the...