Why Trump's War on the Media Matters
Most presidents distrust the news media. Trump wants to undermine it as an institution.
Most presidents distrust the news media. Trump wants to undermine it as an institution.
From Al Sharpton to Bill Maher, Michael Smerconish to our good friend Kennedy, Reason staffers are your voice in the broadcast media.
In the future, everybody's religious beliefs will be newsworthy for 15 minutes.
Backwards-looking attitudes about race, religion, and sex have been a hallmark of the Republican coalition for decades, and are hardly grounds for Hitler Youth comparisons.
From Al Smith and Eleanor Roosevelt to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
The one good thing about Trump's win? It shows a willingness among Americans to blaspheme against saints and reject the religion of hollow progressiveness.
How did sites like Breitbart and Red State get included?
Calling for the social media outlet to censor things, even completely made up stories, can end up in bad places.
Talking election, media bias and cultural blind spots with John Avlon, Mollie Hemingway, Michael Tracey, and Kmele Foster
There was actually plenty of news coverage of the views of Trump supporters.
This false epidemic going viral could drive real suicide attempts among struggling teens.
Who, exactly, are these impassioned social-media screeds supposed to sway?
There are no Trump supporters in sight, but not everyone backs Clinton.
Rep. Kevin Cramer proves it's never too early for Congress to waste time.
Trump gets a plurality, while figures ranging from Jill Stein to David French get cameos.
When does institutional protection of student-victim privacy cross the line into censorship?
America's pink F9F-8 Cougar lives aboard the USS Lexington, a retired naval ship turned private Texas military museum.
It's the campaign's own fault, but outlets are feeding the 'rigging' complaint.
The former 'Dirty Jobs' host makes a successful leap from cable television to social media stardom.
A would-be exposé fails to deliver the goods.
By replacing "third party" with "undecided" as an option, is the network doing the bidding of the two-party duopoly?
Slightly more personal freedom is just a side effect.
The point of political reporting is to help provide context, not obscure it.
Libertarian ticket gets a respectful, skeptical hearing on TV's leading news magazine
FBI refuses to publicly reveal security vulnerability.
Lack of transparency, on the other hand...
Fatal accidents down over recent years, and distracted driving makes up a small portion of those.
A brief recap of maudlin (and often imaginary) clowns haunting U.S. towns recently-and why police can't stop them.
The Night Of, Ballers, Vice Principals, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver are products of the best arts patron of all: the free market.
Public charters help students and traditional schools perform better.
Principal site to be shuttered. Ancillary pages to continue.
A 19-year-old man stabbed two strangers to death and tried to eat the face of one of them, once again provoking warnings about the "zombie drug" flakka.
Clinton suggests presidential wannabes shouldn't endorse violence, except apparently when they're Secretary of State?
Bring on the media concern-trolling.
The real political tragedy of the Trump campaign.
It's not about fighting terrorism; it's about finding leakers.
Why did the U.S. media act like the world was ending? And that #Brexit is really about domestic American politics?
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Whatever else you can say about the U.K. leaving the European Union, it's created tons of apocalyptic scenarios.
Libertarians are getting the chance to make their case to the voting public.
Here are your unintended consequences for demanding media censor info about mass killers.
As print papers continue their decline, cable programs and mobile content are picking up the slack.
Libertarian Party candidates get valuable primetime cable news attention.