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The documentary depicts the kind of maverick journalism we desperately need in our authoritarian times.

The paper’s Gaza coverage continues its pattern of downplaying US-backed atrocities in Bangladesh, East Timor, and Guatemala.

With the death of Norman Podhoretz at 95, the transition from New York’s intellectual golden age to the age of grievance and provocation is complete.

Whatever happened to journalism?

In April 1962, Pete Seeger was abruptly banned from performing a scheduled set for children in Pittsburgh. The surrounding debate says a lot about the city.

The Mass Market paperback format is ending with a whimper.

You're misreading Lee Atwater’s infamous “southern strategy” quote as a confession.

The origin stories of Simon & Schuster, Random House, and Farrar, Sraus and Giroux.

A look at the long history of censorship in public school yearbooks.

"The Atlantic" was born in an era of information overload.

What led Peter Matthiessen from spying to starting a magazine?

Theodore Roosevelt was the first White House occupant to seek control over how newspapers covered him.

How the critic Malcolm Cowley made American literature into its own great tradition.

Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

Long before Trump, a group of Dartmouth students weaponized outrage and satire to seize the spotlight.

Arguably no American journalist wielded as much influence as Walter Lippmann did in the 20th century. But what did he do with that power?

Digging through dictionary archives to uncover the slowly changing meaning of “redskin.”

Unpacking the sensationalist, and occasionally biased, work of Richard Harding Davis.

Blaming video games for violence saves Americans from having to grapple with deeper, harder to solve societal problems.

Henry’s fiery oratory turned words into revolution, merging faith, emotion, and democracy to help speak a nation into being.

A recent book on Toni Morrison's career in publishing makes the case that the great American novelist should also be seen as a pathbreaking editor.

What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.

More than curiosities, college papers are unique pedagogical tools that help undergraduates achieve media literacy.

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

There are echoes in our political rhetoric of the men who helped talk the United States into civil war.

The "Red Scare" echo in the Kimmel suspension.

At a time when allegations of antisemitism are rampant and often incoherent, historian Mark Mazower offers a helpfully lucid history of the term.

The term “white trash” once was used to disparage poor white people. In the Civil Rights era, its meaning shifted to support business-friendly racial politics.

A personal exploration through Indigenous history and the importance of names.

A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.