The Well Actually Andrea Grimes May 31, 2024

Twelve NY Jurors Did What the Media Won’t

Andrea Grimes May 31, 2024

Trump has always shown us who he is. But neither mainstream news outlets nor GOP lawmakers would do what a dozen brave New Yorkers did yesterday: Call it like they saw it and hold the former president to account.

The Truth About Claire Bond Potter Feb 15, 2023

Debt Ceiling Theatrics Hide the Truth of GOP Spending

Claire Bond Potter Feb 15, 2023

For 40 years, the GOP has used the same talking points to mislead the public on the debt ceiling.

SOTU Max Burns Feb 8, 2023

What Biden Didn’t Say in the State of the Union

Max Burns Feb 8, 2023

The GOP is waging culture wars with harmful and violent consequences, yet those social issues were missing from the presidential address.

The Well Actually Andrea Grimes Jan 31, 2023

The Necessity of Self-Care in These Absurd Times

Andrea Grimes Jan 31, 2023

When doom dominates the headlines, turning inward might prove to be our life raft.

Politics Max Burns Jan 26, 2023

The Government Has a Classified-Document Problem

Max Burns Jan 26, 2023

The government spends billions on keeping track of sensitive materials. So why do our valuable documents still go missing?

The Fourth Estate Parker Molloy Nov 3, 2022

Access Journalism Is a Fool’s Errand

Parker Molloy Nov 3, 2022

In an effort to keep them in good stead, reporters have coddled Republicans who claim that legacy media is biased against them. It's only served to push coverage further to the right.

Book cover for the book The Unfolding by AM Homes

Q&A Kera Bolonik Sep 22, 2022

‘The Unfolding’ of an Unraveling America

Kera Bolonik Sep 22, 2022

DAME talks with author A.M. Homes about her new prophetic novel and the white male existential crisis.

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Language Matters Anat Shenker-Osorio Nov 30, 2021

What Polling Data Fails to Reveal About American Opinion

Anat Shenker-Osorio Nov 30, 2021

We can use polling to determine where people are, but it cannot reveal the destination to which popular opinion is headed.

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Politics Emily L. Hauser Jan 27, 2021

Unity’s Winners and Losers

Emily L. Hauser Jan 27, 2021

‘Unity’ won’t repair America’s fractured society if we’re expected to do so with the lawmakers whose policies dehumanize women.

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Trumpism Misha Valencia Nov 11, 2020

Can We Deprogram Trumpism?

Misha Valencia Nov 11, 2020

From Pizzagate to Stop the Steal, millions of people have gotten sucked into QAnon, and it's eroding our sense of reality—and exploding our democracy.