Massive broadcast merger between Sinclair, Tribune has many worried about propaganda
The Sinclair-Tribune merger would bypass the congressional cap set at 39 percent, but because of an FCC loophole, only a portion of Sinclair’s current stations are considered in the count.
Mass incarceration: An American problem
Private prisons are profiting from America's mass incarceration problem.
WATCH: Bernie Sanders Stops by Saturday Night Live
What did you think of the Bernie Sanders and Larry David sketch?
Honoring two men just brought down by the coronavirus pandemic
John Prine and Bernie Sanders have left a legacy, the importance of which cannot be ignored.
Twelve movies about American demagoguery to watch this weekend
Bored with the transfer of presidential power? Here's an alternative viewing list of great films.
The battle for hearts and minds: RT, WikiLeaks and net neutrality
The ongoing battle to maintain net neutrality is perhaps the most important free speech issue facing the United States, if not the West as a whole.
Waiting at the border, migrants lean on tradition
One early afternoon, Sandra Vázquez sits on an old metal bench outside a bus station, next to two other women who, like...
Making internet easier
The idea behind the foregoing is to make communication easier, prevent cheating, and make dispute resolution simpler and more acceptable in small cases.
Amerika 2019: A Woody Allen film?
In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the...
A Global Battle of Values and Ideals
Unity, cooperation and tolerance; such qualities necessitate and encourage a shift away from a narrow ‘me first’ approach to living to an awareness and responsibility for society more broadly and the natural world.