Mass incarceration: An American problem
Private prisons are profiting from America's mass incarceration problem.
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.
What’s stopping media from calling Las Vegas killer a ‘terrorist’? His whiteness
Like other mass shooters before him, Stephen Paddock has the benefit of White privilege even in the most vicious of circumstances.
Hate unbound
Politicians and media moguls have long understood that fear and hate sell better than hope and compassion, no matter how much we might wish it otherwise.
Wall Street is killing local newspapers
We can’t put a price tag on our free press — but unless we stop them, predatory investors can.
What America can learn from China—Lessons from the pandemic
While the China model cannot be transplanted to the West, there’s a lot that America can learn from China.
Should there be a maximum income?
What, after all, is the guiding light of society?
NYT remembers David Koch more as ‘philanthropist’ than polluter
An obituary should memorialize a person, but some people’s legacies are darker than dinosaur exhibits.
Monsanto’s Boot Camp
If much of today's news seems unreal to you, that's because corporations are spoon-feeding it to the media. Big food companies are now sponsoring "boot camps" for reporters on the issues of “feeding the world’s growing population.”
As gov’t struggles to reunite families, detained mothers are organizing to find their kids
Mabel Gonzales has carefully documented the cases of mothers who have been separated from their children at a detention facility in El Paso, Texas, where she is currently jailed.