The AP’s Privacy, and Ours The AP’s Privacy, and Ours
The uproar over government searches of media phone records should not obscure the deeper problem—the law’s failure to protect the privacy of all of us in the digital ag...
May 22, 2013 / Editorial / David Cole
Ron Fournier, Doomsayer Ron Fournier, Doomsayer
Reports of President Obama’s demise turn out to be greatly exaggerated.
May 22, 2013 / Column / Eric Alterman
Fighting Facebook, a Campaign for a People’s Terms of Service Fighting Facebook, a Campaign for a People’s Terms of Service
Social media companies say consumers’ loss of privacy is just the cost of doing business. But what would happen if they actually had to bargain with users on equal footing?
May 22, 2013 / Ari Melber, Woodrow Hartzog, and Evan Selinger
Attacks From Within: On Janet Malcolm Attacks From Within: On Janet Malcolm
The war between democracy and aristocracy in Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts.
May 21, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Mark Oppenheimer
Farai Chideya: Is Journalism Going the Way of the GOP? Farai Chideya: Is Journalism Going the Way of the GOP?
Journalism has a class and color crisis. How can it be solved?
May 21, 2013 / Nation in the News / Press Room
Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You
Yahoo isn’t buying the blogging service for its profitability. It’s buying it for the advertising possibilities.
May 21, 2013 / Robert Scheer
‘Our Liberty Cannot Be Guarded but by the Freedom of the Press’ ‘Our Liberty Cannot Be Guarded but by the Freedom of the Press’
Libertarian Republicans and progressive Democrats are moving to restore privacy rights in light of revelations of Department of Justice threats to press freedom.
May 21, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols
Class and ‘The Great Gatsby’ Class and ‘The Great Gatsby’
Some things haven’t changed that much since the Jazz Age.
May 17, 2013 / Blog / Michelle Dean
Obama’s Media Shield Kabuki Obama’s Media Shield Kabuki
Coming on the heels of the DOJ's seizure of AP records, proposed legislation to keep reporters from being forced to reveal their sources seems would actually roll back protecti...
May 16, 2013 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
Don’t Get Sucked Into Obama Scandal–mania Don’t Get Sucked Into Obama Scandal–mania
Seven Days in May: Each scandal on its own might have fizzled; together, their fumes are intoxicating liberals, too.
May 16, 2013 / Blog / Leslie Savan