"I have not seen ever before a direct infringement on the right to free speech like that," CNN's Jake Tapper says of the Trump administration's actions in the Jimmy Kimmel saga.
The military establishment’s efforts to quash leaks could encourage them instead.
Fully peaceful protesters who hate President Donald Trump with intensity but not much specificity took to the streets on Saturday.
The default in mainstream media isn't no opinion, it's his opinion.
Media consolidations are not drying up the well of discourse; it's overflowing with takes.
The Trump Administration's recent abuses of the agency's powers lend weight to longstanding libertarian arguments for abolishing it, going back to Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase's classic 1959 article.
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The complaint suggests the Times showed "actual malice" because its reporters hated him. That's not how that works.
The company's value was plummeting long before it nixed the "Old Timer" from its logo.
"They suspected the house was being used as a school," notes the Times, in a moment of high drama, "and they were right."
Nearly three weeks in, it's getting difficult to remember what everybody was so mad about—or if more than a handful were ever mad at all.
It shouldn't matter whether NPR leans right or left. Cutting its federal funding was the right move.
Plus: Trump’s "woke AI" order, Gawker’s cultural legacy, and a listener question on deregulation and the BBB.
Politicians' interest in controlling the content you see shifts from public media to social media.
The success of "contingency management" belies the notion that addiction is an uncontrollable disease caused by a drug's impact on dopamine levels.
The notion that NPR can somehow become unbiased is about as believable as the IRS sending you a fruit basket to commend you for filing your taxes.
The Senate just voted to cut off the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What comes next?
Tune in on July 15 at 6:20 p.m. Eastern to hear four co-hosts' unflinching critiques of the latest in politics, culture, and whatever fresh hell awaits us all.
There's no evidence that cuts to the National Weather Service impacted the response to the weekend's tragic flash floods.
First-place finishes include a piece on the Dutch "dropping" rite of passage, a documentary exploring citizen journalism and free speech, and a long-form interview with exoneree Amanda Knox.
Plus: A case for gambling freedom, the NHL’s tax dilemma, and a soccer movie.
Mario Guevara built a following covering immigration arrests around Atlanta. Press freedom groups say police frivolously arrested him while he was covering a "No Kings" protest.
Independent media is where regime-change apologia goes to die.
After Vance Boelter allegedly targeted Democrats in an attack, some conservatives jumped to claim that he was actually on the left. Why?
Press freedom groups say they're alarmed by the dozens of clearly identified cases of reporters being targeted by police during the protests.
The Fox News personality reflects on her evolution from a contrarian Republican to a libertarian and her belief that personal freedom, humor, and not giving a shit are the keys to a better America.
Unanimous rulings on discrimination, guns, and religion once again challenge the common media narrative that the Court is hopelessly polarized.
A new study on the trustworthiness of PBS fails to persuade.
Media coverage of our tariff case has mostly been fair and accurate. But there are a few examples of unfortunate misconceptions, mainly having to do with libertarianism and its relationship to conservatism.
that treats the Library of Congress as an Executive Branch department as to Presidential removal of the Librarian.
In a legal filing this week, Trump argued that routine edits to a CBS News interview he did not participate in caused him "confusion and mental anguish."
Ignore David Axelrod's suggestion that questions "should be more muted and set aside for now as he's struggling through this."
The lessons "America's Finest News Source" could offer the rest of the press.
Despite the fearmongering from teachers unions, it's largely useless.
A new executive order would keep the Corporation for Public Broadcasting alive while telling it to cut off the two biggest public broadcasting networks. Get ready for a legal fight.
Climate change is real and may cause real problems. But media outlets keep pushing hysterical myths that don't materialize.
Republicans often call for cutting off the funds but have never actually done the deed. Here's why this time might—might—be different.
Yes, the climate is warming. But, despite what you may have heard, we can deal with it.
Disney scaled back DEI policies this year. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr still opened an investigation.
The self-styled watchdog site ranks news outlets' reliability, which has rankled those on both the right and left.
The U.S. has a real problem with overclassification. But the assertion that details about impending air strikes would not be classified strains credulity.
With the controversy over the leaked White House group chat, mainstream media have been treating secrecy as a virtue and disclosure as a vice. That’s a dangerous game.
The White House accidentally leaked military plans in Yemen to a journalist—and demonstrated how unconstitutional U.S. war making has become.
