Low-quality pundits are getting rich telling people what they want to hear, inside the economics and psychology of how it works

By Matthew Sheffield

‘Decoding the Gurus’ co-host Matthew Browne on how the tools of acquiring knowledge are being used to destroy it

As Pride month closes, LGBTQ+ advocates are split on whether Biden is doing enough to protect the community

By Kate Sosin

Right-wing comedy isn’t funny, but it sure is effective

By Matthew Sheffield

Authors Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx discuss their new book about why lefties need to take right-wing comedy seriously

‘Certifiably crazy’: Jan. 6 panel highlights how Team Trump pushed Pence to overturn election

By Brett Wilkins

How far-right media manipulated a father — and a nation

By Matthew Sheffield

Jen Senko discusses her book and film, ‘The Brainwashing of My Dad,’ and how to help people escape from conspiracist media

Unsuccessful attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson are a sign of political smears to come

By Kristen Doerer

Propaganda websites helped merge far-right conspiracy theories about imaginary child abuse into a narrative that served the GOP elite

We’ll never know how many people are dead because of Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda

By Eric Boehlert

Fearful of far-right competitors, the Fox honcho decided to redouble the toxic lies about Covid-19

Denver shooter’s ties to well-known Republican commentators underline misogyny’s key role in violence

By David Neiwert

Initially ‘proud’ of Capitol attack, some far-right media figures switched to blaming leftists to align with leaders

By Kyle Mantyla

Media elites have missed the damage caused by free trade, and how millions felt betrayed by Democrats

By Matthew Sheffield

Journalist Farah Stockman discusses her new book on the meaning of work, and how educated elites have ignored the problems of others

Chris Christie’s book flop exposed the absurdity of establishment media’s search for ‘reasonable Republicans’

By Eric Boehlert

GOP elites occasionally critical of Trump are celebrated in the centrist press, but they actually have no real constituency

Embracing uncertainty may be a better way to cure conspiracist thinking

By Ivan Oransky

If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, labels can make the truth that much harder to find

Newspapers’ lawsuit against Facebook and Google shows courts may be best for reining in tech abuses

By Cory Doctorow

An online ad marketplace stripped of surveillance can thrive, but it will not happen without government intervention

Tucker Carlson inadvertently attacks his own fan in desperate bid to shift blame for Capitol attack

By David Neiwert

With no real evidence to support his lies about January 6, the Fox News host is resorting to smearing his own fans

The GOP embrace of violence is too important for mainstream media outlets to ignore

By Eric Boehlert

Corporate media journalists aren’t serving the public’s right to know unless they report the story of how far-right Republicans are trying to develop a paramilitary wing

New report examines how fossil fuel industry uses elite PR firms to spread climate misinformation

By Jessica Corbett

‘A major part of the effort to obstruct climate action involves enhancing the positive public reputation for the fossil fuel companies’

Term limits for newspaper columnists would go a long way

By Parker Molloy

American politics has changed a lot in the past 20 years, unfortunately, the New York Times columnists have not

Fox News, right-wing group attack ‘Sesame Street’ for daring to include Asian Americans

By Oliver Willis

In latest effort to keep their voters angry, GOP elites are raging against the pioneering children’s program

How the ‘Steele Dossier’ confused the public and ended up helping Donald Trump

By Matthew Sheffield

Journalist and author Barry Meier discusses how private spy agencies manipulate the media and intimidate whistleblowers for wealthy clients

As media fall for right-wing ‘woke’ hysteria, racial justice advocates are getting pushed to the fringe

By Ari Paul