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Why did Obama administration lawyers refuse to discount the possibility, even for First Amendment–protected speech?

Barack Obama

Why do journalists run interference for the 1 percent, when their job is to expose their schemes?

Postal service

It’s smart politics—the PO is popular, and could be a great community aid in the digital era.

The vilifying charges levelled at Russia's president by the American media could undermine rational U.S. policy-making.

A planet connected by wild weather.

Rupert Murdoch

British investigations reveal the shocking extent of his shady tactics. Can we really believe he hasn’t used the same methods here?

Anthony Shadid

Anthony Shadid was an exceedingly rare reporter in the thinning ranks of American journalism.
 

The Internet as a toy with a tin ear and a wooden tongue.

Hilary Rosen

Her firm, SKD Knickerbocker, sells its perceived access to the White House, while lobbying for corporate tax breaks and for-profit colleges.

Blogs

Journalism has a class and color crisis. How can it be solved?

May 21, 2013

Libertarian Republicans and progressive Democrats are moving to restore privacy rights in light of revelations of Department of Justice threats to press freedom.

May 21, 2013

A major PBS funder almost scuttled a film that portrayed him in a negative light. 

May 20, 2013

Some things haven’t changed that much since the Jazz Age.

May 17, 2013

Coming on the heels of the DOJ's seizure of AP records, proposed legislation to keep reporters from being forced to reveal their sources seems would actually roll back protections in some states.

May 16, 2013

Seven Days in May: Each scandal on its own might have fizzled; together, their fumes are intoxicating liberals, too. 

May 16, 2013

The Justice Department’s intrusion is just part of a larger trend that includes Obama’s crackdown on whistleblowers and indefinite detention of suspects without a trial.

May 15, 2013

And the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee agrees. How’s that for bipartisanship?

May 15, 2013

After decades of takedowns, the art is still stoking controversy.

May 14, 2013

Questions of VIDA, and women’s authority to offer opinions, were discussed in a lively panel on Women and Criticism.

May 14, 2013
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