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GOP-Fox Circus Act

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.

Comcast Center

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

survivalism

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

David Stockman

 Reagan's former budget director's outrage over crony capitalism and bank bailouts is right on, but the pundits don't like it.

Trent Mays (L) and Ma'lik Richmond (R) sit in juvenile court in Steubenville, OH

Decades of work to change rape laws has done little to change culture.

Anthony Lewis

For more than three decades, he was perhaps the most prominent establishment voice for the antiwar, human rights and civil rights movements.

Dollar bill

Media-savvy conservative think tanks take aim and fire at progressive power bases in the states. 

New York Times building

The New York Times’s new ombudsperson keeps the Gray Lady honest.

Sheryl Sandberg

Feminists were quick—too quick—to question the Facebook COO's motives for writing Lean In, her self-help manifesto.

Blogs

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

Another alleged "abuse of power" move adds to Obama administration crackdown on leaks and whistleblowers.

May 14, 2013

A TV debate over Muslims and violence and America's own terror practices.

May 13, 2013
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