At a time when legacy publications are increasingly seen as playing for one political "team" or the other, this type of editorial decision will not do anything to fix that perception.
The cult of the imperial U.S. presidency has come to feel like a national religion.
Whatever lies the press is telling us, they are ones that at least some of us want to hear.
Frightening events create openings for attacks on civil liberties.
The fear that harsh federal jail conditions will lead to Assange’s suicide is the only reason he won’t face espionage charges in the U.S.
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Bob Bryant was infected with COVID-19 while on vacation and died. A news story tries to link that to church services.
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There’s no journalist more relentlessly iconoclastic than Greenwald, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Snowden revelations.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist on Joe Biden, free speech, and leaving The Intercept for Substack.
The New York governor is getting a shiny award for playing a good governor on TV.
The Hunter Biden story has exposed the media's selective skepticism.
Forty years later, the libertarian Nobel laureate's PBS series is still winning hearts and minds.
Ira Glasser, former head of the ACLU, is worried that his former group is embracing identity politics over free speech.
PBS documentary recounts life of America’s pioneer of tawdry fame coverage.
No, it’s not “bad for democracy” to keep giving a platform to the President of the United States.
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Regina Ip spins a fantasy of a just government restoring order to Hong Kong.
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One very sketchy story about an Oklahoma City teen’s tragic death has gone viral.
Compared to 2016, fewer people are watching on broadcast and cable TV because they know a dull infomercial when they see one.
The Fox News host explains his new self-help book The Plus, the upside of quarantine, and why he thinks Donald Trump will be reelected.
Ad revenue is way down, but crypto offers an alternative revenue model for online publications. Is it workable?
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Another blow to the country's few remaining independent news outlets
But buried beneath the bilious response to the Harper's joint statement is a worthwhile argument about freedom of association.
Cancel culture is real, but Hamilton is safe.
The redefinition of the term diminishes actual victims of violence and trivializes why people are protesting.
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Our leaders and institutions are failing us spectacularly. It's up to us to reboot society.
The heterodox hosts of the popular Blocked and Reported podcast talk about surviving internet outrage, the roots of speech repression, and the power of direct financial support from fans.
Elite journalism's bizarre week, analyzed on the Reason Roundtable.
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Online censorship is coming, and it’s going to be bad news for everybody.
There are a lot of reasons to critique the attorney general. Find one that doesn’t require misleading your audience.
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Calls to U.S. poison control centers are up. They have been since March.
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No, they’re not frontline ventilators. Yes, they’re useful.
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The coronavirus pandemic has led to less air pollution...unless you count all the germs.
The media can reasonably blame Trump for a lot of things. This is not one of them.