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IssueVol. 088 Issue 003 (June 6 2024)
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Paid articleEditor's Note
EDITOR’S NOTE THIS ELECTION YEAR CALLS FOR CIVIC INTERVENTION American democracy is at a decisive moment in history. Headlines run ad nauseam, warning that democracy itself is “on the...
Paid articleMedia Literacy in a Political Year
Stockwell, Norman
COMMENT by NORMAN STOCKWELL MEDIA LITERACY IN A POLITICAL YEAR I first came to know the work of Project Censored during my time in community radio. We would regularly invite speakers from...
Paid articleStopping the Deepfake
NICHOLS, JOHN
STOPPING THE DEEPFAKE The 2024 presidential election in November will be the first in U.S. history to be conducted with­out a functional media system. In the past two decades, 43,000...
Paid articleNo Comment
The Ties That Bind Laws on the books in four states—Arizona, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas—effectively prohibit pregnant women from getting divorced, even they are victims of domestic...
Paid articleLetters to the Editor
Work on the Border Re: “The Open-Air Detention Camps of San Diego” (April/May 2024), thank you so much for this reporting! How can folks get more involved? Are there ways to contribute...
Paid articleBlast from the Past
BLAST FROM THE PAST In its first year of publication in 1909, the magazine La Follette’s Weekly produced a multipart series by scholar and public education activist William Kittle titled...
Paid articleAs Gaza War Continues, Protests Erupt Across Campuses
On April 18, police arrested more than 100 students who had set up encampments at Columbia University in New York City to protest the war in Gaza and demand that the school divest from Israel and...
Paid articleThe War in Gaza and at Home
Conniff, Ruth
RUTH CONNIFF is editor-at-large for The Progressive and editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner. Her book, Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers...
Paid articleReducing Health Care Inequities for People with Disabilities
Ervin, Mike
MIKE ERVIN, a writer and disability rights activist living in Chicago, blogs at Smart Ass Cripple, “expressing pain through sarcasm since 2010,” and writes regularly...
Paid articleThe Laborious Nature of Labor Reporting
Jaffe, Sarah
Sarah Jaffe is a regular contributor to The Progressive covering labor, economic justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture. Her next book is From the Ashes: Grief...
Paid articleWhen Free Speech Rights Collide
LUEDERS, BILL
WHEN FREE SPEECH RIGHTS COLLIDE I n the days following the Janu­ary 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol instigated by then Pres­ident Donald Trump, the social media sites Facebook and Twit­ter...
Paid articleWhat Folks Believe, By the Numbers
WHAT FOLKS BELIEVE, BY THE NUMBERS Here are some findings from recent opinion surveys of the U.S. public. Make of them what you will. 31% of Americans say it is probably or definitely...
Paid article‘None of the Above’: Exposing Election Year News Abuse
Huff, Mickey; Roth, Andy Lee
‘None of the Above’: Exposing Election Year News Abuse As framed by corporate news media, presidential elections have become as formulaic as a Hallmark holiday movie. BY MICKEY HUFF...
Paid articleThe Establishment Strikes Back
Higdon, Nolan
The Establishment Strikes Back The forces behind the TikTok ban seek to eradicate the divide between cable news candidates and the digital electorate. BY NOLAN HIGDON “P hones are...
Paid articleDark Money Uncovered
Macek, Steve
BY STEVE MACEK Last fall, a shadowy conservative political action committee called Citizens for Sanity began run­ning ads in Ohio attacking Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown for his stance on...
Paid articleNavigating the Digital Democracy
Haynie, Kate Horgan, Reagan; Voitl, Shealeigh
Social media platforms are increasingly reliant on automated content modera­tion to filter content that violates com­munity guidelines, including, notably, during the COVID-19 pandemic, when...
Paid articleWhere Is the Protest?
Carrier, Jim
When Robin Lloyd opened her laptop to scan the news on March 7, a large head­line stopped her: “It’s time to protest nuclear war again.” A graphic op-ed in The New York Times warned that a new...
Paid articleMedia Literacy Becomes a State Issue
Johnson, Sharon
BY SHARON JOHNSON In January 2023, New Jersey pushed back against the tide of misinformation by becoming the first state to pass a law requiring all K-12 students to receive instruction on how...
Paid articleAn Exorcism to Save America
Boghosian, Heidi
BY HEIDI BOGHOSIAN Christian nationalists wield growing influ­ence in political discourse and are particu­larly active during election cycles. Followers believe the United States was founded as,...
Paid articleOne Question
WALTER SCHEIRER Professor of engineering at the University of Notre Dame Author of A History of Fake Things on the Internet In this age of the Internet, older communications media still...
Paid articleDemocrats’ Rural Problem in Wisconsin
Lieffring, Christina
BY CHRISTINA LIEFFRING In 2022, Brad Pfaff was running for Wisconsin’s Third Congressional District, a mostly rural region encompassing the western and central parts of the state. Pfaff, a state...
Paid articleChoosing Activism in the Deep South as a Black Woman
Bennett, Camille
She told me how from that day on, every time she went in and out of “colored” bathrooms and drank from “colored” water fountains, she promised that one day she would return to the South and make...
Paid article‘We Have to Put Palestine on the Ballot’
Bernstein, Dennis J.
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the editor of The Palestine Chronicle, as well as a nonresident senior research fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs. He is the author of several books...
Paid articleThe Fascist Right, Rightwing Media, and the War on Critical Race Theory
DiMaggio, Anthony
BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Rhetorical efforts to stoke public paranoia and fear are a hallmark of fascist-elimina­tionist politics. If an “enemy”—in this case, civil rights activists drawing attention to...
Paid articleBook Reviews
Bader, Bill Lueders, Eleanor J.; Gilmore, Brian
In 1782, toward the end of the American Revolutionary War, the owner of a Philadelphia printing press created a fake newspaper meant to erode the British public’s confidence in their government....
Paid articleIs Corporate Media Destined to Be a Chicken for Colonel Sanders?
Ali, Wajahat
WAJAHAT ALI is a Daily Beast columnist, public speaker, recovering attorney, and tired dad of three cute kids. His first book is Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations...
Paid articleBetting on Failure
Zirin, Dave
The fact that legal sports betting has become the economic lifeblood of the sports world is hardly new. As soon as the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal law in 2018 that had banned sports...
Paid articlePoem
Delgado, Diana Marie
Diana Marie Delgado is the author of the chapbook Late-Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust (Center for Book Arts, 2015) and the full-length poetry collection Tracing the Horse (BOA Editions,...
Paid articleWhat Nation Besides Israel Is Killing Gaza’s Innocent Palestinians? and Where Is George Orwell Today? Texas!
Hightower, Jim
Populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator JIM HIGHTOWER’s writings can be found at jimhightower.substack.com. “Somebody better investi­gate soon.” That’s a lyric from Bob...
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