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T he taxation of property in the eastern German state of Thuringia would normally be a subject of strictly local concern. But last week a vote to cut...
T o count the thousands killed by the floods in the eastern Libyan city of Derna does not truly help us grasp their loss. “Those people are not...
In a chilling scene at the end of James Graham’s play Ink, Rupert Murdoch – having made his indelible mark on British media and society – slows...
O ne of my older brothers subscribed to Rolling Stone magazine in its early years, and while I saw women and musicians of color gracing its cover from...
Christiane Amanpour has reported all over the world, so she recognizes a democracy on the brink when she sees one. Last week, as she celebrated her 40...
Even before he took over Twitter, Elon Musk touted himself as a “free speech absolutist”. This was always a troubling notion for an insanely rich...
I n late 2012, I was the newly minted public editor (or newsroom watchdog) at the New York Times, when the news hit that Mark Thompson was likely to...
H e thinks the climate crisis is a hoax, supports Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, and would gladly pardon Donald Trump on Day 1 of his...
Judge Lewis Kaplan has had enough of Samuel Bankman-Fried’s envelope-pushing. “He has gone up to the line over and over again and I am going to...
I pulled into Nazareth, I was feeling ‘bout half-past deadline. Like the narrator in the Band’s classic song, The Weight, I had found myself not...
The setting was inevitable, and the personalities predictable. On a Fox News interview (where else?) conducted by Sean Hannity (who else?), the House...
My assistant in the New York Times public editor’s office said Robert F Kennedy was on the phone. Did I want to take the call? This was roughly a...
I signed up for Threads the other day, somewhat against my better judgment. After all, Threads doesn’t have the best blood lines; nothing in its...
It’s been a grim week or so in the United States, especially for those with progressive values. In Baltimore, a deadly mass shooting underscored,...
T he US supreme court is an extraordinarily exclusive club. The nine members are unelected and employed for life, or until they step down...
Amid the palm fronds and the red baseball caps, after a motorcade on a Florida highway and before a shameful fundraiser at a New Jersey golf resort,...
It was one of those pieces of news that was simultaneously stunning and utterly expected: Chris Licht was out of CNN. No doubt, the chairman and CEO...
Pride Month is here, and this year it’s happening in a tough environment. American corporations – although eager to declare their support for...
P olitical journalists and pundits spent much of Wednesday obsessing over the gimmicky way that the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, was announcing...
I n a seminal 2009 essay, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, the brilliant New York University professor Clay Shirky made the point that...
N o, the verdict did not amount to total vindication. But for E Jean Carroll and for the more than two dozen other women who, over many years, have...
Jodie Ginsberg remembers an important lesson from her decade as a Reuters foreign correspondent and bureau chief: there simply is no substitute for...
On any other day, the revelation that anchor Don Lemon was out at CNN would have been a big deal in the world of media news. But Tucker Carlson’s...
A s opening arguments neared on Tuesday afternoon, even the most hardened skeptics might have found themselves thinking the impossible was actually...
J oe Biden was in his element this week on his genial tour of Ireland, meeting the politicians, meeting the people, being Joe. But in keeping with...
O n 27 March 2007, nearly 450 years after Elizabeth I sponsored John Hawkins’ slaving expeditions to west Africa, Elizabeth II attended a service...
As a reality TV star, as a would-be business mogul, as a political candidate and as president, Donald Trump always counted on the news media to do his...
His face stared out from news stories on Thursday morning, accompanied by headlines like this one in the Guardian: “Russia arrests reporter and...
You have to hand it to Stormy Daniels. After all of Donald Trump’s well-documented malfeasance over the decades – his fake university and failed...
A s it tries to defend itself against the accusation that it knowingly spread lies about the 2020 presidential election, Fox News has touted some...
The Florida governor Ron DeSantis likes to brag that he’s just getting started with his rightwing agenda. “You ain’t seen nothing yet,” was...
“Ooh, the Hollywood issue!” was my first thought on pulling the glossy new Vanity Fair magazine – timed to this Sunday’s Academy Awards –...
If you’ve paid even the slightest attention to how Fox News operates, the recent revelations from a legal filing come as no huge surprise. From the...
After weeks of speculation about a Chinese spy balloon and other weird things in the skies over North America, President Joe Biden on Thursday did...
Just before President Biden turned 80 in November, he said something that I could identify with – that he didn’t even want to say his age out...
Why I’m not hopeful that the Republican-led House investigation will stay grounded in reality
The news media has greeted the supposed scandal of Biden’s mishandling of classified documents with breathless glee
My name was floated as a potential head of the social media platform. Here’s what I’d do if I were suddenly in charge