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Behind Closed Doors
New reports show that the Trump Department of Justice spied on reporters. But that’s just a small part of a much longer story, going back decades. Th…
4 years, 9 months ago
From Public Shaming To Cancel Culture
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve taken on some of the battles in the ongoing culture war. The granddaddy of them all is cancel culture. Michael Ho…
4 years, 9 months ago
Little Fires Everywhere
Trump may be out of office, but the GOP's campaign to limit voting rights, free speech, and reproductive rights is still in full-swing. On this week’…
4 years, 9 months ago
One of the Most Influential Black Journalists You Probably Never Heard Of
Record numbers of journalists formed unions over the last few years, surpassing data even from the surges of labor organizing in the 1930s. And the p…
4 years, 9 months ago
Shamed and Confused
After a young Associated Press journalist lost her job last month following online attacks, On the Media considers how bad faith campaigns against th…
4 years, 9 months ago
OTM Presents: "Blindspot: Tulsa Burning"
On May 31, 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District was a thriving Black residential and business community — a city within a city. By June 1, a wh…
4 years, 9 months ago
Not a Perfect Science
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are falling and the number of the vaccinated continue to rise, but the pandemic’s harm to our mental health is still beyo…
4 years, 9 months ago
I Would Prefer Not To
We live in a time of sensory overload and overwhelm. A global pandemic, an ongoing climate catastrophe, and online discourse run amok. And a sense th…
4 years, 9 months ago
How It Started, How It's Going
A year and a half into the pandemic, we still don’t know how it began. This week, a look at how investigating COVID-19’s origins became a political a…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Ghosts of the Rust Belt
The old US Steel building in Pittsburgh, PA is a black monolith, symbol and fortress of industrial power, soaring above the confluence of three might…
4 years, 10 months ago