The Raid on the ‘Marion County Record’ Is Only the Beginning
Journalists from the Marion County Record—a paper that reaches a rural Kansas area of less than 12,000 people— were doing some routine reporting three weeks ago when they asked local authorities about...
View ArticleThe Media Has a Real Thing Against VP Kamala Harris
No one in the political press or the public at large is actually worried about Joe Biden’s age, never mind the media’s obsessive attention to it. Though he is about to make his 81st turn around the...
View ArticleLying About Abortion Is the GOP’s Election Strategy
The weekend after Ohio voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to enshrine a right to abortion in the state Constitution, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel went on NBC’s...
View ArticleSaving Democracy Starts at the Local Level
This year, the victory of abortion rights in Ohio was a triumph of popular sentiment and representative democracy writ large. It took months of organizing for advocacy groups, concerned parents,...
View ArticleThe Failed Promise of “Never Again”
There’s nothing quite like living through a moment. Try explaining it or documenting it, describing it or representing it, and somehow the very visceral reality of experiencing a time or era can never...
View ArticleBuilding Back a Better Biden
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. There’s a point when persistence becomes madness, when the will to continue rejects the...
View ArticlePresident Trump 2.0 Is Gunning for a Massacre
It’s early in 2025 and the days are still short. The country is wracked by protests against President Trump’s moves to consolidate power into the dictatorship he promised. The administration has...
View ArticleWho Exactly Are “We the People”?
There is a choice to be made. Essential goods are painfully expensive for the benefit of private wealth; armed agents of the state suppress a disgruntled population with lethal force, killing children...
View ArticleLying Is What Dictators Do
One of Donald Trump’s first acts as president in 2017 was to force Sean Spicer onto the podium to lie about how his inauguration was the best attended and watched ever. It was such an audacious and...
View ArticleWhat Is the Cost of American Prosperity?
The United States has the greatest economy in the history of the world. We are a behemoth of wealth unprecedented in scale, scope, and returns. Three states by themselves—California, Texas, New...
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