Culture

While giving the protests a great deal of coverage, the corporate press across the political spectrum consistently downplayed one of the primary causes of unrest: the increasingly punitive U.S. blockade.

“I can’t believe that participation in an organized white supremacist group focused on street-level violence wouldn’t jeopardize your security clearance.”

If enacted, the proposal would reverse the expansion of transgender rights that took place under President Barack Obama.

A public bank is an institution owned by a governmental body, funded with taxpayer money, and mandated to serve the public interest.

The report had nothing to do with the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe.

What these occurrences share, and what they’re illustrating, is a profound hatred towards purveyors of journalism.

The leaders of North and South Korea are meeting in Pyongyang this week to discuss the possibility of a peace treaty to end the decades-long conflict dividing the Korean Peninsula.

The decision means that potentially thousands of Native Americans will not be able to vote in the upcoming elections.

That a perfect opportunity to show a real, if still only potential, attack by the Trump Administration’s Justice Department on the freedom of the press was almost entirely ignored says a lot about the mainstream press’ actual priorities, not only in the U.S. but in most Western countries with less objectionable leaders.

1983 is an alternative history that bears disturbing resemblance to contemporary politics.