Guns: The Four-Letter Word of US Public Health Policy Guns: The Four-Letter Word of US Public Health Policy
Eric with the latest reviews and Reed on gun violence.
May 29, 2014 / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
What the ‘Wall Street Journal’ and the MEK Get Very Wrong About Iran’s Nuclear Program What the ‘Wall Street Journal’ and the MEK Get Very Wrong About Iran’s Nuclear Program
Did a report from a “problematic” source land in the opinion pages because it failed to pass muster with newsroom editors?
May 29, 2014 / Eli Clifton
How We Lost the Internet to Big Brother How We Lost the Internet to Big Brother
In case you hadn’t noticed, the nets of corporate and government phishing are in the water, already being drawn up around you.
May 29, 2014 / Tom Engelhardt
There Are No More Honest Conservatives, So Stop Looking For One There Are No More Honest Conservatives, So Stop Looking For One
The mainstream and liberal press’s quixotic search for a ‘good’ conservative merely reinforces the soft bigotry of low expectations.
May 29, 2014 / Rick Perlstein
Computer Programs Are People, Too Computer Programs Are People, Too
How treating smart programs as legal persons could change privacy as we know it.
May 29, 2014 / Samir Chopra
Fear and Self-Loathing in Isla Vista Fear and Self-Loathing in Isla Vista
The UCSB shooter was obsessed with class status, racial hierarchies and the belief that certain women owed him sex and their attention.
May 28, 2014 / Dani McClain
Conservative Jones, Boy Detective, and the Mystery of the Unhinged Netizens Conservative Jones, Boy Detective, and the Mystery of the Unhinged Netizens
Why are certain Internet users so irrationally attached to the notion of net neutrality?
May 27, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow
The Tabloid Shaming of Chirlane McCray Ignores the Realities of Motherhood The Tabloid Shaming of Chirlane McCray Ignores the Realities of Motherhood
So she was ambivalent at first. So were a lot of us.
May 23, 2014 / Lizzy Ratner
Western Media Coverage of the Ukraine Crisis Is as Distorted as Soviet Propaganda Western Media Coverage of the Ukraine Crisis Is as Distorted as Soviet Propaganda
Why is the Western press so invested in expounding the highly unconvincing narrative of the official line?
May 22, 2014 / Vladimir Golstein
How Muslim Americans Combat Online Hate Speech How Muslim Americans Combat Online Hate Speech
A new report documents incidents of bigotry and suggests fighting bad speech with counter speech.
May 21, 2014 / Anna Lekas Miller