Unmasking racists and trolls on the Internet may feel like justice, but it does not drive social progress.

Mira Nair's latest film includes a character who's a journalist and CIA agent. Is this responsible filmmaking?

Whatever happened to quiet bravery and dignity?

Studies show that insiders at Google could, if they wanted, covertly alter voter preferences. The very possibility is a threat to democracy.

Rinku Sen on the Associated Press's decision to "drop the 'i' word," Robert Dreyfuss on Hagel's bad budget rhetoric, and the editors on a prize for Nation illustrator Steven Brodner.

Post Election Day, is the network's huge audience tuning out?

His next appointee for FCC chair could determine whether robber barons consolidate their domination of the public discourse.

In her book Captive Audience, Susan Crawford shows how media giants exert a stranglehold over consumers and government.
 

Prophecies of government tyranny, financial meltdown and violent anarchy featured on Doomsday Preppers are being absorbed into contemporary conservatism.