Marty Kaplan
Marty Kaplan is the Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Follow him on Twitter: @martykaplan.
ALL POSTS BY Marty Kaplan
June 22, 2017Shiny John Thune has been tasked with selling the outrageous health care bill put together by the “gang of 13.”
May 25, 2017Tolerance treats every belief as equally valid; Trump's utter indifference to the truth allows him to treat every belief as equally meaningless.
February 24, 2017Thinking is hard. Truth is complicated. Focus is fragile. But there's plenty of reliable information to be found.
January 13, 2017The presidential inauguration is a "civic religion," but will anything change if we watch it or not?
December 13, 2016Trump's similarities to Putin are evident, but will we call him out for what he really is?
December 2, 2016Trump could not have announced a more in-your-face betrayal of his promise to clean up Washington than his pick of Donald McGahn.
November 15, 2016We must be vigilant, and remember we are not alone.
September 26, 2016It doesn’t matter how the debates go, or what the polls say; the press will portray the final stretch of this horserace as neck and neck, a photo finish, you won’t want to miss this, stay tuned.
August 26, 2016This latest "Trump pivot" is an act, and everyone knows it.
July 26, 2016Do we miss anything by tuning out horserace-style election coverage?
