What Reporters Are Getting Right and Wrong on Hurricane Harvey
Words matter and journalists, more than anyone, should know that. Now’s the time to keep reporters honest, but many covering Harvey showed the media how it’s done.
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Fake Trump News Is About to Invade Most American Living Rooms
The $3.9 billion Sinclair-Tribune merger will spread conservative propaganda throughout the country. Is Twitter our only hope for independent news?
Disabled People Shouldn’t Have to Fight to Be Parents
As the writer considers whether to become a mother, she reveals this nation's long history of depriving the right of parenthood to the disabled—which continues to this day.
The Existence of Trump’s New “News of the Week” Is Sad!
Our Dear Feared Leader has launched a propaganda hour on Facebook delivering only what he wants to hear. The news might be fake, but the threat is so very real.
“The Talk” Is Selling Soap, Not Social Justice
Procter & Gamble's ad about the dialogue parents have with their Black kids about racism would be a triumph if it didn't reek so much of opportunism.
No, the Media Didn’t Betray Scaramucci
We knew he wouldn't last. But Scaramucci is a perfect, and concentrated, example of everything that's wrong with the Trump administration.
Are You Worrying the Right Way About the Right Things?
We’ve been distraction-shaming each other since day one of the chaos presidency. But how can we find focus with an unprecedented onslaught of never-ending headlines?
Oh, White Men With Your Never-ending Need to Dictate the Democratic Platform
Another day, another media pundit telling us to stop talking about "identity politics" if Democrats want to win. But they’re wrong.
Woe Is Donny Junior
All Junior ever wanted was to be daddy's best boy. But he lost out on that job to ... Ivanka.