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From Arab bandits to TV terrorists, the history of Islamophobia in US popular culture is long and ugly.

The beloved New Orleans daily is profitable and has enviable market penetration. So why is it moving to three-day delivery?

US soldier in Afghanistan

The MSNBC host and Nation editor at large has always been a thoughtful and fair journalist. That includes how he conducted himself in the controversy around his Memorial Day show.

So now we have Rambo Obama, a steely warrior who hurls death-dealing drones at anyone who threatens the good old USA. Including children.

The Amazon Effect

Amazon got big fast, hastening the arrival of digital publishing. But how big is too big?

Why does Amazon now have customers do the search chores it used to do for them, and in innovative ways?

Journalist

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.

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The interactive La Ruta dramatizes an experience that many immigrants know too well—and senators could learn from.

April 30, 2013

The high school football coach is on board for two more years—despite the jock-turned-rape culture in his locker room.

April 29, 2013

Industry lobbyists outspent activists 38-1, but a grassroots coalition and dissenting members of Congress appear to have rendered CISPA “dead for now.”

April 26, 2013

Women know sexism when they see it better than men do. This week’s case in point: Dylan Byers.

April 26, 2013

GoFundMe donations are a good Band-Aid for a bad system, but can’t we harness America’s generosity in service of better social programs?

April 26, 2013

The big man—a cultural tycoon and a friend of the Fraternal Order of Police—just went big-bully on a widely acclaimed film about political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jahmal.

April 25, 2013

The conservative Koch brothers are aiming to use their vast wealth to buy a consortium of newspapers. Here’s why you should worry. 

April 25, 2013

The world’s largest sports network just hired a noted critic as its watchdog. What’s next for sports media?

April 24, 2013

Did Reuters and The New York Times lie in their coverage?

April 23, 2013

The paper’s site was packed with coverage that was “Tireless. Dogged. Spirited.” And it was something else: Free.

April 20, 2013