Media Analysis

AT&T’s Plan to Control Media Won’t Let Freedom Ring

AT&T’s Plan to Control Media Won’t Let Freedom Ring AT&T’s Plan to Control Media Won’t Let Freedom Ring

The company’s mega-merger with Time Warner would erode equity in media. Don’t let its fake interest in racial justice make you think differently.

Oct 26, 2016 / Malkia Devich-Cyril

Iran Contra Affair

Iran/Contra Was the Prototype for Post-Vietnam Imperial Adventure Iran/Contra Was the Prototype for Post-Vietnam Imperial Adventure

On the 30th anniversary, we can see that it was an ideological project, with the New Right reasserting the righteousness of militarism and markets.

Oct 25, 2016 / Greg Grandin

Amy Goodman Dakota Access

Amy Goodman: ‘The State Cannot Stop This Journalism.’ Amy Goodman: ‘The State Cannot Stop This Journalism.’

Goodman goes free as a North Dakota judge concludes that covering the Dakota Access Pipeline is not a crime.

Oct 20, 2016 / Editorial / Lizzy Ratner

NATO exercise

Did the White House Declare War on Russia? Did the White House Declare War on Russia?

Vice President Biden announces a forthcoming covert strike against Russian president Putin and Moscow calls it a “declaration of war.”

Oct 19, 2016 / Audio / Stephen F. Cohen

Democracy’s Revenge

Democracy’s Revenge Democracy’s Revenge

What political scientists and policy journalists often miss about American politics.

Oct 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Shenk

Trump Clinton Debate

What if the Next Presidential Debate Actually Covered Critical Issues? What if the Next Presidential Debate Actually Covered Critical Issues?

We need a debate worthy of the challenges we face as a nation.

Oct 18, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Second debate

What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Climate Change What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Climate Change

Years from now, historians will marvel at the absence of global warming in the 2016 campaign coverage and presidential debates.

Oct 14, 2016 / Column / Eric Alterman

Letters Icon

Letters From the October 31, 2016, Issue Letters From the October 31, 2016, Issue

Hello, goodbye…
 Bern on, Bern out…
 With or without her…
 Media malfeasance…
 Pragmatism trumps purity…
 Uberteachers
…

Oct 13, 2016 / Letters / Our Readers

Warmongering in Washington, Preparation for War in Moscow

Warmongering in Washington, Preparation for War in Moscow Warmongering in Washington, Preparation for War in Moscow

In reaction to US words and deeds, the Kremlin is preparing the Russian nation for the possibility of war.

Oct 12, 2016 / Audio / Stephen F. Cohen

Second debate Trump Clinton

The Second Presidential Debate: Gutter-Ball Edition The Second Presidential Debate: Gutter-Ball Edition

Four takeaways from whatever it was we watched last night.

Oct 10, 2016 / Robert L. Borosage

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