No Reason to Exist
The steam explosion that tore the roof from Chernobyl’s fourth unit in the pre-dawn hours of April 26,… more
The steam explosion that tore the roof from Chernobyl’s fourth unit in the pre-dawn hours of April 26,… more
Bad ideology trumps good business
Since last autumn’s Republican victory, progressives have engaged in considerable soul searching. The most basic question has been:… more
Hip-hop has no standing archives. Like the seminal works of the few who’ve come before—David Toop’s Rap Attack,… more
The accomplishments of the Urbana/Champaign IndyMedia Center (UC IMC) read like a media activist’s wish list: Start free… more
What Washington Post editor Zofia Smardz dubbed “Opiniongate” began when columnist and commentator Susan Estrich sent a letter… more
Our media environment is very noisy, abundant, even polluted. Columbia journalism professor Todd Gitlin calls it “media unlimited.”… more
Add up the audience for all of the progressive independent press: national magazines, local newsweeklies, liberal blogs, Pacifica… more
We have Big Media to thank for saving Americans from themselves. Just as the notion of affordable broadband… more
Few people blink these days when some Chicken Little somewhere announces that the virtual sky is falling. The… more
The telltale sign of desperation in politics is when people start making wild threats and accusations. From Joe… more
Why is the news so bad? What can progressives do to fix it?
As long as we are dreaming of the near impossible—the reinstitution of the concept that the airwaves are… more
Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, otherwise known as AMLO or “el peje” after a lovable swamp… more
It shouldn’t have come as too much of a surprise when Time named the right-wing blog PowerLine “Blog… more
1. Stop talking about “bias.” Inaccurate, distorted and misleading news reports that further a conservative agenda or undermine… more
Brazil's decision to cut some ties with the Fund is indicative of changing times in Latin America
Insistent complaints from right-wing pundits about the media’s liberal bias have been effective. Now even the most extreme… more
Pope John Paul II’s reaction to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is well known. Immediately after… more
It’s apparently not enough for George W. Bush to have taken the words “freedom,” “liberty,” and “democracy,” and… more
Dharamsala, India—The rain came down harder and those celebrating the final day of Losar, the Tibetan New Year,… more