The Danger of De-contextualized Reporting: A Case Study of Mainstream Media’s Cuba Coverage
NPR's interview with Arturo Sandoval described Cubans as desperate and hopeless without mentioning the 67-year embargo, the terrorism designation or the oil blockade behind it.
From here to Dystopia
“The future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
A New Year’s development resolution
As 2016 comes to an end, so should the old modes of economic thinking that have produced so much economic hardship and fueled so much tumult.
If we’re honest, we all know Trump’s America
Trump articulates ideas that are closer to what is considered “normal” in the United States than many of us are willing to acknowledge.
The real threat to law and order
It’s found in these and other Trump enablers, lackeys, and bottom-dwellers.
From superpower to failed state: Inequality and the public health crisis in America
The pandemic has shined a spotlight on the failings of leaders and elites.
Federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order, calling it ‘blatantly unconstitutional’
"You are an American citizen if you were born on American soil—period. Nothing that the president can do will change that.”
The self-liquidation of U.S global leadership
Why the world’s richest nation is killing the world’s poorest children.
First, a massive Medicaid attack, then come the midterms, then Republican annihilation
Is this country under attack by an authoritarian enemy?
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