“The New York Times” Has Badly Lost Its Bearings “The New York Times” Has Badly Lost Its Bearings
Its next editor, Joe Kahn, needs to get it back on course.
May 13, 2022 / Dan Froomkin
Farewell to Midge Decter, the Bigot on the Beach Farewell to Midge Decter, the Bigot on the Beach
The obituaries for the founding mother of neoconservatism fail to give a sense of how vile her opinions really were.
May 13, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Meet the Head of Biden’s New “Disinformation Governing Board” Meet the Head of Biden’s New “Disinformation Governing Board”
Nina Jankowicz is a veteran information warrior. But her “experience” working with StopFake should have set off alarm bells.
May 12, 2022 / Lev Golinkin
F*&k Civility! F*&k Civility!
Democrats better get more comfortable with peaceful protest—even at justices’ homes—if we want to get our rights back from a dangerous minority.
May 10, 2022 / Joan Walsh
Famed Chicago Alt-Weekly Barely Survives a Covid Scare Famed Chicago Alt-Weekly Barely Survives a Covid Scare
When the Chicago Reader’s editor sent the co-owner’s anti-vax column to be fact-checked, the fallout nearly killed the paper.
May 10, 2022 / Author
There’s Genocide in Tigray, but Nobody’s Talking About it There’s Genocide in Tigray, but Nobody’s Talking About it
The reasons range from Internet shutdowns to just pure racism.
May 10, 2022 / David Volodzko
The Son of Ferdinand Marcos May Be Hours From Returning the Family to Power The Son of Ferdinand Marcos May Be Hours From Returning the Family to Power
As Bongbong Marcos has worked to launder his father’s reputation, his campaign has been helped—and haunted—by an unlikely source: the legacy of US intervention.
May 8, 2022 / Julia Harte
We Cannot Rely on Billionaires to Create Necessary Guardrails on Social Media We Cannot Rely on Billionaires to Create Necessary Guardrails on Social Media
Nothing makes the case for public ownership of online public spaces like a billionaire proposing to buy one.
May 3, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jennifer Egan’s World Wide Web Jennifer Egan’s World Wide Web
Her latest novel tackles a favorite topic of her fiction—the excesses of the Internet and modern technologies.
May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Erin Somers
Do Revolutions Have a Secret Ingredient? Do Revolutions Have a Secret Ingredient?
A conversation with Gal Beckerman about his book, The Quiet Before, on the hushed moments and activities that precede social change
Apr 28, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jasmine Liu