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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the GOP’s ideological center hurtles into the farthest reaches of the universe, the MSM still strives for “balance.”

For the novelist James Lasdun, being stalked online is like “swallowing a cup of poison every morning.”