The Zombie Drug That Wasn't
Four years after the "Miami cannibal attack," a critique of the press coverage reveals familiar patterns.
Media Criticism
The Legend of the Miami Cannibal Provides Lessons in Shoddy Drug Journalism
A new analysis of TV reports about a shocking crime rumored to be caused by "bath salts" reveals familiar patterns.
Dear Journalists: Whether You Vote Plays Absolutely No Role in Your Capacity for Objectivity
Opinions lead to ballot selections, not the other way around.
It Takes Exactly Four Tweets From Non-Eyewitnesses to Tar a City as Racist
New York Daily News irresponsibly reports that Cub Jason Heyward was 'blitzed with N-word taunts from Cardinals fans'
Can Libertarian Party Presidential Candidates Overcome Media Indifference?
Watch the second half of the Stossel debate between Gary Johnson, Austin Petersen and John McAfee
Sorry—Economic Conservatives are Nothing Like Trump
Prepare to hear a lot of conservatives and free market types compared to Trump.
Middle East State-Run Media Blame Brussels Attack on Their Regimes' Enemies
The Middle East's hew hidden hands
Whose Foreign Policy Is Really Dumb; the Elephant Man Theory of Beauty Pageants, and 'Some Idiot Wrote This'—Introducing The Fifth Column Podcast
Matt Welch, Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan talk smack about culture and current events
Former New York Times Editor: 'Hillary Clinton Is Fundamentally Honest and Trustworthy'
Reputation-laundering from the elite press almost as nauseating as the candidate's own easily provable lies
Equating Vaping With Smoking Is Medical Malpractice
Celebrity doctor Margaret Cuomo falsely claims e-cigarettes are "at least as harmful" as the real thing.
Celebrity Doctor Insists on Misleading Smokers About Vaping Hazards
Margaret Cuomo claims e-cigarettes are "at least as harmful" as the real thing.
Why Are the Newspapers That Condemn Donald Trump's Free-Speech Rants Endorsing Hillary Clinton?
The Donald has lousy rhetoric, but Hillary has a long track record of anti-First Amendment initiatives
The New York Times Just Inadvertently Repudiated Its Own Flawed Nail Salon 'Expose'
It buried the lede, of course.
Defending Atticus Finch
Atticus will endure, as a good, flawed-and yes, often heroic-man who does not always have the right answers but always tries to live by his conscience.
Being Establishment Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry for Regime Change in the Name of 'Stability'
Media darling John Kasich wants to take out North Korea, too
How Maryland 'Neomasculinity' Blogger Roosh V Became an International 'Pro-Rape' Villain
A case study of collective catharsis through call-out culture and moral panic as meme.
New York Paper Says Cops Love Asset Forfeiture, So You Should Too
It pays for stuff police need. What's not to like?
Is the Kochs' Support for Criminal Justice Reform a P.R. Move?
Jane Mayer implies their interest in the issue is new while conceding it is not.
Are the Koch Brothers Right-Wingers or Hippies?
It depends on which parts of the Libertarian Party's 1980 platform you emphasize.
Associated Press Self-Censors Anniversary Charlie Hebdo Cover
Mohammad is nowhere to be seen. Neither is any courage.
ISIS Terrorists Did Not Take Captagon or Any Other Drugs Before the Paris Attacks
Contrary to overheated press reports, they were under the influence of nothing but religious fanaticism.
Obama's Rainbow of Everlasting Joy: The Year in Presidential Photography
Despite an ongoing media boycott of White House staff photography, the president's image crafters still call the shots.
The Year's Best Drug Scares
Impossibly potent marijuana edibles, formaldehyde in e-cigarettes, pills of war, MDMA disguised as Halloween candy, and superhuman flakka zombies.
How The New York Times' Uses Rhetorical Ploys To Defend Its Shoddy Nail Salon Series
When cornered on facts, claim bias.
Good News, Americans! Cars Are Now Killing as Few People as Guns!
The numbers don't justify the outrage and fear.
Pando Appalled That Uber Hires High-Powered Politicos, Media Allegedly Ignoring It
Criticizing a company under constant political assault for its political hires is to mistake the defense for the crime.
For Gun Control Supporters, Japan's High Suicide Rate Is Much Less Interesting Than Its Low Homicide Rate
A Vox post about Australia highlights declines in suicide, a subject that a post about Japan does not even mention.
CNN Correspondent Collaborated with Hillary Clinton Team to Denigrate Rand Paul
2013 emails reveal pattern of CNN's Elise Labott working with, and for the goals of, Hillary Clinton's team.
The Pill That Supposedly Turns Syrians Into Superhuman, Fearless, Relentless Killers
Captagon captures the imaginations of yellow journalists.
The New York Times vs. Nail Salons
The gray lady's inaccurate reporting wreaks havoc on an immigrant-dominated industry.
NRA Slammed for Not Supporting Law Giving Attorney General Arbitarary Power to Deny Rights [UPDATED]
Daily News sees "sick jihad" behind not letting an unelected official deny rights largely at will.
The New York Times Publishes Another Misleading Story About Nail Salons
Are there no reporters at the paper other than Sarah Maslin Nir who can cover the issue?
The New York Times Says Working in Nail Salons Causes Cancer and Miscarriages. The Evidence Says Otherwise. (Part 3)
The final in a three-part series on how Sarah Maslin Nir's investigative series violated the standards of responsible journalism.
How The New York Times' Flawed Reporting on Nail Salons Closed Opportunities For Undocumented Immigrants (Part 2)
The second in a three-part series on how Sarah Maslin Nir's investigative series violated the standards of responsible journalism.
Why Are Thousands of Chinese Nail Salon Owners Planning to Protest in Front of The New York Times This Morning?
Read Reason's investigative series to find out.
The New York Times' Nail Salons Series Was Filled with Misquotes and Factual Errors. Here's Why That Matters. (Part 1)
Reporter Sarah Maslin Nir's investigative series violated the standards of responsible journalism.
People Magazine Wants You to Bug Your Representatives for More Gun Laws; What do the People Think?
Not what People wants them to think.
This Catholic Magazine Thinks There's a Libertarian Way to Ride a Bicycle. What?
Commonweal's Alan Wolfe calls libertarianism "a total ideology, one that addresses every aspect of how people live."
The Conservative Anti-Trump Club
George Will, Glenn Beck, Karl Rove, John Podhoretz and many others aim their poison pens at the GOP frontrunner
The Big Lesson of Hurricane Katrina? Don't Rely on the Govt. Or the Media.
They both stink in a crisis and will leave you high and dry.
