In theory, state media is more vulnerable to doing the bidding of its sponsoring government than are privately owned media companies. In pra...

Words  matter in politics. The side that can frame a question by definitively naming it in the public mind enjoys a subtle though often dec...

How well do voters (i.e., an electorate) know and thus are able to assess people running for public office? As the proportion of people who...

On September 15, 2013, the White House announced that Larry Summers, Barak Obama’s prior chief economic advisor and a Secretary of the U....

In 2013, the editors at Rolling Stone must have been kicking themselves after several retail chains announced that they would not be selli...

Why did Mark Zuckerberg unload $2.3 billion of his Facebook stock? The complete answer likely involves more than meets the eye, at least ...

Whereas we grasp the interior sense in which Gandhi taught to forgive, the media promoted a false, politicized forgiveness as operating i...

It is one thing to say that something is broken; it is quite another thing to fix it. In such a case, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it doesn...

Just as the US Senate was to take up the matter of Ben Bernanke’s re-appointment as Chair of the Federal Reserve in 2010, Time  magazine ca...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a black hole. If this is news to you, there is no need to go hide under a rock. It turns out our black hole ...

During the summer of 2010, as commentators at Fox, CNN, and MSNBC were arguing, they referred to their own arguments as “trench warfare” an...

The E.U. states of Greece and Italy were grabbing headlines during the first two weeks of November 2011, given the dramatic resignations of...

In a few days during July in 2010, the American media was obsessed with Shirley Sherrod, who in a tightly edited video clip had made appare...

Are Americans indifferent to what is happening in Europe unless there is some direct effect on them? If so, the news media would simply be ...

Just weeks before the 2012 elections in the U.S., the New York Times observed, “In 1960, John F. Kennedy was trailing Richard Nixon as th...

I suppose that after looking at something closely for a long period of time, virtually anyone would perceive a small change in it as huge....

Craig A. Dubow, Gannett’s former chief executive, had a short six-year tenure that was, by most accounts according to The New York Times , ...

CNN reported that the U.S. economy added “a strong 209,000 jobs” in July of 2017, with the unemployment rate falling to 4.3% to match a 16-...

Russia witnessed the largest anti-government protests in more than five years on March 26, 2017. At the urging of Aleksei Navalny, “tens of...

Judge Ann Donnelly of the U.S. Federal District Court in Brooklyn, New York, issued a nationwide injunction on January 28, 2017 concerning ...