How Iran Won the Meme Wars How Iran Won the Meme Wars
While Donald Trump panders to MAGA, Iranian satire is reaching a global audience.
Apr 13, 2026 / Jeet Heer
Waging a Culture War by Promoting Comedic Mediocrity Waging a Culture War by Promoting Comedic Mediocrity
The Ellison family, poised to continue dominating the media landscape with its Warner deal, signs on an infomercial-grade comic to replace Stephen Colbert.
Apr 8, 2026 / Ben Schwartz
What Happened to Tucker Carlson? What Happened to Tucker Carlson?
The transformation of a once promising, if conservative, magazine journalist into a conspiracy-minded talking head.
Apr 7, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann
Why Fascists Fear Free Speech Why Fascists Fear Free Speech
The White House is following an old authoritarian playbook to suppress dissent.
Apr 7, 2026 / Greg Ruggiero
The AI Sector’s Crass Bid for Media Domination The AI Sector’s Crass Bid for Media Domination
When you’re a galactically rich tech mogul upset with adverse press coverage, you just buy yourself more flattering media outlets.
Apr 6, 2026 / David Futrelle
Fact-Checkers Anonymous Fact-Checkers Anonymous
Getting a job at The New Yorker felt like an arbitrary stroke of luck. Getting fired was quite the opposite.
Apr 4, 2026 / Jasper Lo
The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite
How the self-styled know-it-alls atop the knowledge economy want to dismantle the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake
Apr 1, 2026 / Elizabeth Spiers
The Bad-News Echo Chamber of Pro-Democracy Substack The Bad-News Echo Chamber of Pro-Democracy Substack
How many pro-democracy Substack authors over-focus on gloom and doom and ignore organizing, and who’s bucking that trend.
Mar 27, 2026 / Micah L. Sifry
A Landmark Suit Against Meta and YouTube Opens the Floodgate for AI Litigation A Landmark Suit Against Meta and YouTube Opens the Floodgate for AI Litigation
A jury finds big tech liable for programming addictive features into platforms—and that’s basically the business model for companion bots.
Mar 27, 2026 / David Futrelle
Marc Andreessen’s Dangerously Unexamined Life Marc Andreessen’s Dangerously Unexamined Life
The tech mogul has declared himself an enemy of introspection, and that conveniently erases considerations of conscience from his amoral investment empire.
Mar 23, 2026 / David Futrelle