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Eric Alterman has been pointing this out for a long, long time.

I feel like we need to repost this on a near weekly basis, but there are two big myths that keep making the rounds over and over and...

Good on her for making the press listen to the consequences of Boebert's GOP-sanctioned bigotry. (language warning)

By Bruce E. LEVINE Given my experience with young people’s hopelessness, I was skeptical of a Harvard Kennedy School spring 2021 poll of 18-to-29 year olds that…

No tengo vergüenza en decirlo: colaboro incansablemente en la formación de jóvenes que adolecen de una desigualdad intelectual estructurada, les acompaño en su proceso de mejora en la medida en que así lo deseen y lo permitan.

On the unacknowledged legacy of violent Jewish nationalist Meir Kahane

It’s like kryptonite for responsible news organizations: the stronger their piety to journalistic ethics and the ideal of objectivity, the more vulnerable they are to accusations made in bad faith.

Altercation: Race, Vietnam, and the New Left in Mid-Century George Scialabba discusses the limits of Louis Menand’s new tome on America in the Cold War era. Robert W. Klein/AP Photo Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, is restrained by police as he walks onto the platform at the University of California’s Greek Theatre in Berkeley, December 7, 1964. I’m about three-quarters of the way through Louis Menand’s 880-page The Free World: Art and Thought in th...

Altercation: Why Journalism Isn’t Really Covering the Threat of Fascism Objectivity has no bias in favor of the truth. Oliver Contreras/Sipa USA via AP Images House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters outside the White House after a meeting with President Biden, May 12, 2021. A (not bad) New York Times headline informs us that “‘A Perpetual Motion Machine’: How Disinformation Drives Voting Laws.” But a better summary of what the story tells us would be: ...

Palestinians take part in a prtoest in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, in Deir Al-Balah in the center of Gaza Strip on May 08, 2021. More than 170 Palestinians have been injured after Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and dispersed worshippers elsewhere in occupied East Jerusalem, as weeks-long tensions between Israel and the Palestinians over Jerusalem soared again. Photo by Ashraf Amra. (c) APA Images. Last week the Guardian newspaper in London expressed shame over...