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May 24, 2024 • 28min

Ellen Schrecker on the Attack on Academic Freedom

The violent attacks on college students and faculty across the country showcase the abandonment by many educational institutions of their responsibility to protect not only students, but the space in which they can speak and learn freely.
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May 17, 2024 • 28min

Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency, Ian Vandewalker on Small Donors

The 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through skullduggery--but many people who vote do believe that.
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May 10, 2024 • 28min

Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah Invasion

US press are so used to driving the narrative they don’t know what to do except yell “shut up shut up shut up” and send in the cops.
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May 3, 2024 • 28min

Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Racial Justice

Different media, telling different stories, can change our understanding of our past, our present and our future.
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Apr 26, 2024 • 28min

Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers

Colleges’ official responses to protests are gutting the notion that elite higher education entails respect for the free expression of ideas.
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Apr 19, 2024 • 28min

Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country

The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.
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Apr 12, 2024 • 28min

Chris Bernadel on Haiti

What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history.
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Apr 5, 2024 • 28min

Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone

Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was whistled past by the press corps.
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Mar 29, 2024 • 28min

Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal

A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.
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Mar 22, 2024 • 28min

Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts

Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.

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