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  1. The End of Journalism or a New Beginning? Newspaper newsroom, April 26, 1966. (Photo by Jerry Engel/New York Post Archives / (c) NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2016 … If our first fake news election turns out to mark the end of democracy as we know it, I think I can pretty precisely date when the end began. More than 20 years ago, I and a bunch of other Continue reading
  2. Goodbye to All That Democracy A demonstrator holds a "99%" sign as hundreds of people stage a protest in Hollywood, California on Jan. 25, 2012 against "corporate tax dodgers," namely FedEx. The demonstrators included unemployed workers, community groups, and Occupy LA activists. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … There ought to be a German word for the unpleasant feeling that comes when one’s dire predictions come true. Schmerz-Prognose: pain in premonition. Something like that feeling likely overcame Vanderbilt law professor Ganesh Sitaraman at around 10 p.m. on Nov. 8, Continue reading
  3. Why Is it so Controversial to Help Poor Mothers Afford Diapers? Jennifer Donald whose family receives money from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also know as food stamps, eats dinner with her sons David, 6, left, and Donovan, 4, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    8 Aug 2014 … Imagine you’re a single mother working a minimum-wage job with a toddler at home. When your diaper supply runs out mid-month, where can you turn to help you afford that incredibly basic necessity? Not SNAP, nor WIC, nor most other Continue reading
  4. The Get-Off-My-Lawn Party Meets in Cleveland Delegates from Washington State dance during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 19, 2016. (Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2016 … Oh dear. Watching C-SPAN and waiting for Tuesday’s roll call confirming Donald Trump’s nomination to begin, the house band there in the hall, led by GE Smith, formerly of Saturday Night Live, played covers of The Temptations’ “I Can’t Get Continue reading
  5. This Small Town’s History Shows Why the TPP Could Be a Disaster for US Workers Galesburg residents saw their jobs disappear after the passage of NAFTA. The Trans-Pacific Partnership won't be any different. (tfooq / Flickr)
    6 Jun 2015 … Galesburg, IL residents saw their jobs disappear after the passage of NAFTA. The Trans-Pacific Partnership won't be any different Continue reading
  6. Not Your Grandma’s Civil Rights Strategy On March 8, 2015, Marchers retraced the steps of those who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years before over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/,em>The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom wrapped up on the national mall, President John F. Kennedy, prodded by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, welcomed John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Continue reading
  7. Resignation Letter from US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh
    10 Oct 2014 … "I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year old civil war." Continue reading
  8. We Are Out of Time: We Need to Take a Leap One of the Expedition 40 crew members onboard the International Space Station captured this oblique image of Typhoon Halong at 09:37:54 GMT on Aug. 5, 2014. The orbital outpost was at a position 225 miles above Earth over a point located at 14.2 degrees north latitude and 128.7 degrees east longitude.
    12 Dec 2015 … We need to paint a picture of what life could be like inside those scientific red lines, life within the limits imposed on us by nature. And that life needs to be not just better than a future of climate Continue reading
  9. If You Thought the Reproductive-Health Crisis in Texas Couldn’t Get Worse, Well… In this July 12, 2013, file photo, abortion rights supporters rally on the floor of the State Capitol rotunda in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa, File)
    10 Oct 2015 … The state’s move to cut Planned Parenthood off Medicaid funding will further limit poor women’s access to care. Continue reading
  10. If the Media Keeps Ignoring Health Care, We’ll Lose It Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel (R-KY) speaks during a news conference following a Senate Republican luncheon in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2017. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2017 … There is a giant scandal in Washington this week — and it’s not the one blaring from your television screen. Largely without media scrutiny, the United States Senate is quietly getting ready to pass their version of the House bill Continue reading