Corporate Media Is Practically Baying for a Police State
While it celebrates Hong Kong's protesters as champions of democracy, our political press paints our own as vandals, thugs and criminals.
While it celebrates Hong Kong's protesters as champions of democracy, our political press paints our own as vandals, thugs and criminals.
In 1989, President George H.W. Bush vowed the U.S. would lead the world into the next century. We've been spinning our wheels ever since.
A new survey finds 70% would likely vote for a socialist candidate, with 38% saying they now approve of communism—up from 28% in 2018.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders place flowers on the remains of the wall that divided the German capital for 28 years.
In 2018, four protesters interrupted a speech by Steve Mnuchin at UCLA. Now a putatively liberal Democrat wants to send them to prison.
If the advertising industry has taught the president anything, it's that puffery pays huge monetary rewards and goes virtually unpunished.
Henry A. Giroux’s new book analyzes the neoliberal fascism that led to Donald Trump’s rule and offers hope that democracy can be saved.
By singling them out for criticism, Nancy Pelosi has all but invited the president to smear the progressive women of color in her caucus.
In a curious collaboration, the president and U.S. news outlets put aside their differences to peddle distorted narratives about the past.
The philosopher and linguist reflects on his seminal work, "Manufacturing Consent," and the sinister new ways we are sold to advertisers.
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