The West Virginia Senate is advancing a bill that would force schools to show students an anti-abortion propaganda film produced by an extreme “pro-life” group that became infamous for secretly videotaping Planned Parenthood consultations and crusading to end federal funding for the ...
by David Hiller It was easier to figure out what news sources to trust when I was growing up in Chicago. You could read the Chicago Tribune or the Sun-Times. (I rode along on my brother’s newspaper routes.) You could watch the local news on WGN-Ch. 9 or tune into one of the network ...
by Andrew Moss Since the presidency of Donald Trump, our growing preoccupation with deceptive forms of political communication can be charted in the way that terms like “Big Lie,” “election denialism,” “conspiracy theory,” “disinformation,” and “propaganda” have ...
The 40th anniversary of MLK Jr. Day As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 15, we once again honor the many contributions of Dr. King in the journey toward ending racial discrimination in this country. Among Dr. King’s many significant ...
by Mihir Sharma In 2024, democracy will face a test for which it is unready. For the first time since the internet age began, the world’s four largest electoral blocs — India, the European Union, the U.S., and Indonesia — will hold general elections in the same year. Almost a ...
As the wars between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Hamas rage on, there is a secondary war being waged — on information and truth. As Kyle Chayka, a staff reporter for The New Yorker, recently noted, this is the second so-called “TikTok war” in recent years. The first was when the ...