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It's unclear if the image issued by the Kensington Palace was, in fact, doctored, but it hasn't helped debunk rumors of the Princess of Wales's absence.

The 58th volume of the Socialist Register asks such questions as: Are the current tendencies towards polarization new, and if so, what is their significance?

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

For 15 years, Brent Lee spent hours each day consuming ‘truther’ content online. Then he logged off. Can he convince his former friends to question their worldview?

It is one of the great ironies of our time that, just two decades after capitalism became the singular global mode of production, as capitalist accumulation and…

From the Existential Issue: Digital journalism didn’t have to be this way I’m a journalist and an urban planner, both service professions with an ethical obligation to the public. The work of planners and journalists is deeply embedded within power structures that perpetuate racial injustice and social inequality—and unfortunately, neither profession has engaged in the deep self-reflection required to change all that. My interest in the confluence of journalism and urban planning brought ...

Join Ever since the whole world went online, we’ve faced an onslaught of news-seeming websites peddling in fiction. False claims and made-up stories spread quickly on social media, and the truth is more and more difficult to find. Can you even trust mainstream news sources? There are plenty of theories for why fake news and political paranoia proliferate in the internet age, but writer and media scholar Marcus Gilroy-Ware says they often miss the mark. His recent book, After writing and lec...