The incredible belief that corporate ownership does not influence media content
As Sen. Bernie Sanders (CJR, 8/26/19) has recently noted, corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal function of the press: reporting...
Is the US legal system at war with its people?
Incarcerations, brutality, and torture are common in the U.S. Activists claim that this amounts to a war waged against racially marginalized, poor, and working-class people.
As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes
With the climate crisis now escalating, and the federal government withdrawing, help from local muscle and outside charities is about all the disaster relief that Indian Country can expect for the foreseeable future.
The public is clueless about the federal budget and it’s the New York Times’...
We should be able to get reporters to do their jobs and report budget numbers in a way that means something to their audience.
The message from the manger
It is not a political or ideological discourse, but the story of Christmas is a parable of light delivered to a world of pain and darkness.
3 things schools should teach about America’s history of white supremacy
Schools have ample opportunities to include much more about White supremacy, racial discrimination, and racial violence into school curricula.
Blockbuster exposé confirms H.G. Wells’ truism that “human history” is “a race between education and catastrophe.”
Gayle Greene’s “Immeasurable Outcomes” presents an impassioned manifesto to revive quality, democratic education that redeems college teaching and re-seeds enlightened, disaster-averting voters.
The battle for Net Neutrality isn’t over
The FCC says the reversal "will protect consumers at far less cost to investment than prior rigid and wide-ranging utility rules."
Fracking fans use intelligence report to revive baseless claim Russia funds U.S. anti-fracking movement
An alleged Putin connection had snaked its way into the talking points of volunteers working to encourage voters to nix the fracking ban proposal.
Tangled in the garden of good and evil
A French television program tackles the tough questions of compliance and resistance.