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All too often, the most prestigious perch in journalism—the New York Times op-ed page—is given to those who flatter the powerful.

As the old journalism dies, what does the Bezos era portend?

Why, to Beltway reporters, Glenn Greenwald is no Bob Woodward.

A portrait of the journalist and intellectual who championed the caboclos of the young Brazilian republic.

How did a journalist whose career was devoted to exposing injustice end up writing a film like Zero Dark Thirty?

Reports of President Obama’s demise turn out to be greatly exaggerated.

The war between democracy and aristocracy in Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts.

Media observers horrified at the thought of a Koch takeover of the Tribune Company are more sanguine about Murdoch. What are they thinking?

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