Biden Shouldn't Meet Xi Jinping in China. He Should Do It in America.
The U.S. may not realize it, but it has the upper hand. It turns out communism doesn't work.
The U.S. may not realize it, but it has the upper hand. It turns out communism doesn't work.
Friday A/V Club: One cable host's capacity for unearned smugness
"The kind of values I've always embraced are heard more on Fox than on CNN and MSNBC, where they're not welcome."
''The kind of values I've always embraced are heard more on Fox than on CNN and MSNBC," says the Pulitzer Prize–winning progressive journalist.
World journalists have been quicker than Americans to see danger in prosecuting the Wikileaks founder.
The WikiLeaks founder faces espionage charges for publishing classified U.S. information, a prosecution with serious implications for all our First Amendment protections.
An explosive Times report alleged that Kraken CEO Jesse Powell created a "hateful workplace," leading to an employee exodus. Is that what really happened?
White player suspended for calling black player "Jackie"; many journalists conclude that the player (and Yankees fans!) are racist.
"The platform's choice to release this special now, during a wave of unprecedented anti-trans legislation, is unconscionable," according to Vox.
An exhaustive profile of the Sleep and High on Fire frontman focuses almost entirely on his "dangerous" affinity for David Icke's lizard people conspiracy theories.
Nominated stories cover minor league baseball, drug tests, and L.A.’s plan for ending homelessness
If Musk was so fond for South Africa's segregationist policies, why did he refuse military conscription and jump ship to Canada as a teen?
Dean Baquet played a leading role in two of modern journalism's turns for the worse.
Journalists often do their best work in places that offer the least welcoming environment.
Substack's Hamish McKenzie on censorship, discourse, and Joe Rogan.
Reporting that makes Black Lives Matter look bad should not be covered up by social media companies.
Left-leaning outlets and tech giants tried to label them disinformation—until they no longer could.
Compact brings "labor populism" and "political Catholicism" under one roof.
Today's journalists aren't speaking truth to power by not-so-subtly agitating for direct military involvement in Ukraine.
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The Founders Fund vice president and Pirate Wires author on supporting heretics as a means of social and economic innovation.
In the new book Free Speech, the Danish activist defends radical self-expression from Socrates to social media.
"At the core of libertarianism is the idea that people are assets."
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The novelist and essayist attacked CNN's handling of Neil Young vs. Joe Rogan—and promptly drew the ugly ire of the podcaster's admirers!
The scandal du jour reminds us that radical free speech is alive and well.
You're talking about him, aren't you?
The New York Times and The Washington Post shamed the recipient of a pig heart transplant for committing a crime 35 years ago.
"Governments realize that they are in an existential battle over who controls information."
The show eschews simplistic political commentary, choosing instead to spoof America's self-obsessed, self-dealing elites.
After the cops killed her, the A.P. gave her the "no angel" treatment.
Last year may have been the year of the Cuomosexual, but 2021 rightly disabused people of the notion that New York's governor had their best interests at heart.
It's a fairly benign thing to say. And yet it's a landmine in our media landscape.
Offending the powerful can be dangerous in an increasingly authoritarian world.
Either everybody gets to enjoy journalistic freedom, or it will turn into glorified public relations work for the powers-that-be.
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A good way to know you’re living through high inflation is when you’re discouraged from talking about it.
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This is where government demands to moderate what users say will ultimately lead.
Robby Soave doesn't like it when social media deplatforms users, but the far bigger threat comes from lawmakers on a mission.
Persuading vaccine objectors is a much better approach than imposing coercive top-down mandates.
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Here’s why Section 230 is so important.
Friday A/V Club: Some people are against concentrated media power. Some just want to bend it to their will.