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The Dawn of Big Government and the Administrative State

A new book correctly diagnoses how non-elected agencies are running the country, but falls short on how it got this way.

by Paul Gottfried via The American Conservative on March 13, 2019

Does Journalism Have a Future?

In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on January 22, 2019

The Drunkard’s Progress

Two hundred years ago, it was hard for Americans to miss the message that they had a serious drinking problem.

by Benjamin Breen on January 17, 2019

What War of the Worlds Did

The uncanny realism of Orson Welles’s radio play crystallised a fear of communication technology that haunts us today.

by Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey via Aeon on November 26, 2018

When Richard Nixon Declared War on the Media

Like Nixon, Trump has managed to marginalize the media, creating an effective foil.

by Matt Giles via Longreads on November 8, 2018

The Internet’s Keepers?

Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive.

by Nathan Matisse via Ars Technica on October 7, 2018

When Did TV Watching Peak?

It’s probably later than you think, and long after the internet became widespread.

by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on May 30, 2018

How Superheroes Made Movie Stars Expendable

The Hollywood overhauls that got us from Bogart to Batman.

by Stephen Metcalf via The New Yorker on May 28, 2018

How Everything On The Internet Became Clickbait

The “Laurel or Yanny?” phenomenon was the logical endpoint of 300 years of American media.

by Kevin Munger via The Outline on May 27, 2018

Donald Trump shaking hands with Mike Huckabee.

Church of The Donald

Never mind Fox. Trump’s most reliable media mouthpiece is now Christian TV.

by Ruth Graham via Politico Magazine on May 17, 2018

A man demonstrating television to another.

This Futuristic Color TV Set Concept From 1922 Was Way Ahead of Its Time

Back in the earliest days of imagining what TV looked like, the appliance was a magic technology.

by Matt Novak via Paleofuture on May 4, 2018

It Didn’t Start with Facebook: Surveillance and the Commercial Media

The era of audience exploitation began in earnest thanks in large part to the experiments of Dr. Frank Stanton in the 1930s.

by Michael J. Socolow via We're History on May 1, 2018

Serial Killers: A New Breed of Celebrity

Pop culture's surreal embrace of the serial killer.

by Julia Ingalls via CrimeReads on April 24, 2018

White Supremacy Is the Achilles Heel of American Democracy

Even in a high-tech era, fears about minority political agency are the most reliable way to destabilize the U.S. political system.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on April 17, 2018

KKK parade in Washington DC, 1926.

Voices in Time: The KKK Makes Its Case in Mass Media

The author of "The Second Coming of the KKK" shows an early twentieth-century attempt to go mainstream.

by Linda Gordon via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 12, 2018

What Trump Could Learn from America's Long History of Sex Scandals

Too bad Trump isn't a student of history.

by Mark Hay via Vice on March 26, 2018

KKK parade

How Social Media Spread a Historical Lie

A mix of journalistic mistakes and partisan hackery advanced a pernicious lie about Democrats and the Klan.

by Jennifer Mendelsohn, Peter A. Shulman via Made By History on March 15, 2018

Timor residents in traditional dress look at a National Geographic photographer demonstrating his camera.

National Geographic Has Always Depended on Exoticism

With its race issue, the magazine is trying a different direction. Can it escape its past?

by Rebecca Onion, John Edwin Mason via Slate on March 14, 2018

Why Tamika Mallory Won’t Condemn Farrakhan

To those outside the black community, the Nation of Islam’s persistent appeal, despite its bigotry, can seem incomprehensible.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on March 11, 2018

Kneeling for Hollywood

How Hollywood portrays religious prayer.

by Melani McAlister via Modern American History on March 5, 2018

Former Lehman Brothers Chief Executive Richard Fuld.

The Financial World and the Magical Elixir of Confidence

The financial world is a theatrical production, abundantly lubricated by that magical elixir of illusionists: confidence.

by Matt Seybold via Aeon on February 19, 2018

The ‘SNL’ Sketch That Predicted Our Nerd Overlords

In 1986, William Shatner told a roomful of spoof Trekkies to "get a life."

by Alan Siegel via The Ringer on January 31, 2018

Is It Time for a 21st-Century Version of ‘The Day After’?

It’s beginning to feel like the 1980s all over again.

by Marsha Gordon via The Conversation on January 25, 2018

Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

On Edward Said, othering, and the depictions of Arabs in America.

by Philip Metres via Literary Hub on January 23, 2018

Memories of Mississippi

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.

by Danny Lyon via New York Review of Books on January 10, 2018

1968’s Chaos: The Assassinations, Riots and Protests that Defined Our World

On the 50th anniversary of that extraordinary year, historians consider 1968’s meaning and global context.

by Michael S. Rosenwald via Washington Post on January 1, 2018

Funeral flower arrangement with a ribbon reading "R.I.P. Internet."

Why Ajit Pai is Wrong About Net Neutrality

FCC regulations have long promoted innovation that benefits consumers, not stifled it.

by Michael J. Socolow via Made By History on December 14, 2017

Simeon Booker, Intrepid Chronicler of Civil Rights Struggle for Jet and Ebony, Dies at 99

He risked his life to expose Emmett Till’s death and the Freedom Rides to a national audience.

by Emily Langer via Washington Post on December 10, 2017

The New York Times and the Movement for Integrated Education in New York City

When covering the struggle against school segregation in its own backyard, the paper of record came up short.

by Ethan Scott Barnett via The Metropole on November 29, 2017

Louis Beam

Armed Resistance, Lone Wolves, and Media Messaging: Meet the Godfather of the ‘Alt-Right’

There would be no Richard Spencer without Louis Beam.

by Laura Smith via Timeline on November 6, 2017

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