This guy...

Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

fierce and nimble speaker! the very successful Republican gambit to replace real news with propaganda doesn't exist as a concept in establishment brunchlord journalism

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

Even before her state botched another execution, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerri Green was telling Tennesseans “the death penalty has always been inhumane, expensive, and biased.” Green is running a smart, courageous campaign that brings realism and moral clarity to Tennessee politics.

We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.

A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy.

A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy.

Seriously, these people are spineless. Here is a NYT “analysis” of Trump’s flagrant violation of the First Amendment. You might think that it would be full of outrage. But no, it’s written cutesy. 1/2

“It’s very easy to judge things from the outside....They’re getting global sympathy by getting us to hit things."

In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

This is where the logic of media consolidation inevitably leads: fewer companies, fewer owners, and more of what we see and hear decided by a few billionaires. Decades of treating media as a market, rather than democratic infrastructure, created the conditions for this oligarchic system.