Journalists and Journalism

Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, tours the exhibition floor prior to the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 3, 2014.

Warren Buffett Is a Climate-Wrecker Warren Buffett Is a Climate-Wrecker

Los Angeles Times climate columnist Sammy Roth scoops his business beat colleagues.

May 22, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

Trump media microphones

We Can’t Afford to Let the Fourth Estate Topple We Can’t Afford to Let the Fourth Estate Topple

For all the deserved criticism of the American media, it remains one of the strongest pillars propping up what’s left of democracy in a time that’s been anything but good for the ...

May 21, 2025 / Nan Levinson

Reaping what they sowed: Biden and Harris at Trump’s inauguration.

The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up

The former president’s stubbornness and narcissism led to disastrous Trump victory.

May 16, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Journalists, holding banners, gather for a demonstration to draw attention to the journalists, who lost their lives in Israeli attacks, during

Gaza Is the Front Line in the Fight for Press Freedom Gaza Is the Front Line in the Fight for Press Freedom

The global press corps must stop looking at Gaza as someone else’s crisis—and start demanding justice.

May 14, 2025 / Mohammed R. Mhawish

Pro-Palestinian protesters rally at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Journalism Schools Are Facing Dual Pressures Under Trump Journalism Schools Are Facing Dual Pressures Under Trump

The administration’s attacks on both news outlets and universities can place journalism schools—and their students—at an alarming intersection.

May 14, 2025 / StudentNation / Mohamad Rimawi

World Press, Pope Leo, Sweeney Todd

World Press, Pope Leo, Sweeney Todd World Press, Pope Leo, Sweeney Todd

American pie.

May 10, 2025 / Steve Brodner

A worker assembles components of modular housing in the Capsys factory in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York in 2016, shortly before it was repurposed as the Nehemiah Spring Creek housing development.

When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance

Neither Klein and Thompson nor many of their critics on the left offer a robust strategy for actually building affordable homes. Here’s one that has been proven to work.

May 7, 2025 / Mike Gecan

The Last (Michael) Waltz

The Last (Michael) Waltz The Last (Michael) Waltz

We should welcome the humiliation of Trump’s hawkish, neocon national security adviser.

May 2, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Presidential timber? United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain speaks to guests at an election-night watch party.

Shawn Fain for President! Shawn Fain for President!

Centrist Democrats hate the union leader because he puts the working class first.

Apr 18, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define

Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define

Tariffs and trade are not side issues, but a central front in the battle against monopoly power—and for self-government.

Apr 17, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout

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