-
May 9, 2023
Newton Minow Sought to Lead Us Out of the Vast Wasteland
The Kennedy-era FCC chair who inspired reformers to demand media that served the public interest has died at age 97.
John Nichols
-
April 14, 2023
The Julian Assange Test Facing Every Member of the House
How many representatives have the courage to defend the freedom of the press? Rashida Tlaib wants to find out.
John Nichols
-
April 13, 2023
The Brief Death and Miraculous Resurrection of the “Texas Observer”
Progressive media is not a “business.” It’s a labor movement.
Gabriel Arana
-
January 11, 2023
-
September 29, 2022
Is There a Future for Russian Independent Media?
The press in Russia has been operating under slow but constant erosion during the entirety of Putin’s watch.
Alyona Minkovski and Alina Spatz
-
GET UNLIMITED DIGITAL ACCESS FOR LESS THAN $3 A MONTH!
-
May 13, 2022
Going Beyond Inclusion in Independent Media
A conversation with journalists Laura Flanders, Sara Lomax-Reese, and S. Mitra Kalita about the future of Black and brown media organizations.
S. Mitra Kalita, Sara Lomax-Reese, Laura Flanders, Lizzy Ratner and D.D. Guttenplan
-
March 4, 2022
The Price of Unpaid Activism
Have advocacy and organizing become careers for the well-educated?
Esther Eriksson von allmen
-
August 5, 2021
Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in Pakistan
The country’s famously boisterous press is sinking into the silence of the grave.
Hasan Ali
-
January 15, 2021
What’s Happening to ‘The Chicago Reporter’?
After nearly half a century of speaking truth to power, the “conscience of the city” is fighting for survival.
Laura S. Washington
-
December 8, 2020
Biden Needs To Find His Version of the Fireside Chat
President-elect Joe Biden must meet our challenges through deeds. But words also matter.
Katrina vanden Heuvel