Press and politics

Losing My Religion

By Kevin Baker,

In the Seventies, when I came of age politically, being a lefty was all about believing that “the people” would always save us, if they just knew the truth. We…

An Incoherent Truth

By Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Last fall, Tobi Haslett, a young writer and critic with Marxist leanings, noticed a shift in the contours of popular intellectual debate. “Something is happening out there in the dark…

Vicious Cycles

By Greg Jackson,

Theses on a philosophy of news

The Reichstag Fire Next Time

By Masha Gessen,

The coming crackdown

Mourning in America

By James Marcus,

A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side, to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and…

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By John Ritter,

Swat Team

By Thomas Frank,

The media’s extermination of Bernie Sanders, and real reform

Glasnost Half Full

From the transcript of a staff meeting at RBC, a media company based in Moscow, in July. An audio recording of the meeting was leaked to Meduza, a Russian-language news…

Project Mayhem

By Emad Mekay,

How the State Department helped incite the 9/11/12 riots

Now You Sisi

By Ahmed Ould Meiloud,

From a video of senior Egyptian army officers at a meeting held by General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, leaked last October by the Islamist website Rassd News Network; the meeting is thought…

How to Rig an Election

By Victoria Collier,

The G.O.P. aims to paint the country red

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