Friday, May 17, 2024

Winners and Losers in Our New Media Moment

The winners of the latest version of the news and election cycle won’t be the American people or the electoral system or a deeper knowledge of how our world works.

Scientists Collaborate to Sort Fact from Fiction In Media’s Coverage of Climate Change

Climate Feedback is a global network of scientists who sort fact from fiction in the media’s coverage of climate change.

The Catonsville nine, 50 years later

"What are your future plans?" "Resistance!"

Brooklyn, Spring/Summer ’69- On Neighborhoods and War

You live in the burbs, or what they call so many small cities nowadays. Strip malls, shopping centers and it seems a...

‘An act of terrorism’: Mexico plans legal action against US after 6 citizens killed...

"Mexico would like to express its utmost, profound condemnation and rejection of this barbaric act."
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Indigenous protectors are defending the Amazon and ‘paying with their lives’

Human rights groups warned in an open letter that the Amazon’s last uncontacted indigenous people face “genocide,” amid raging fires and mounting incursions into their territories.

Building community, one fruit tree at a time

“Urban fruit foraging,” it’s called.

Students and teachers are staging walkouts and creative protests to fight book bans and...

As the school year begins, students and teachers are fighting back against an onslaught of attacks on antiracist and LGBTQ education.

Major outlets downplay the fact that Trump’s new chief strategist ran an anti-Semitic white...

By ignoring or downplaying Bannon’s extremist history, major newspapers are not giving their readers the essential background information they deserve on a man who is soon to be one of the most influential people in politics.

Massive, relentless attacks on the U.S. media; a precursor to a totalitarian state?

The big question then is; what kind of a president with what kind of characteristics would be needed to take this country in that dangerous direction?