Media's traditional misremembering of Martin Luther King distorts his ideas and priorities, and rewrites the press's own role in history; it also projects a distorted vision of what protest means and how social change happens—a clear view of which is m...

The question for the press corps is whether they will keep both feet in reality, or allow the perceived requirement to "include" the Trump camp's spin "redefine" previous understandings beyond recognition

Pretending that fearmongering and watchlists and looking the other way are all newly minted will not serve us. In fact, we can look to history to help us understand what's happening, and what we can do to resist it.

This year's "Best Of" includes Heidi Beirich on white supremacy, Chris Savage on Flint's toxic water, Alvaro Bedoya on discriminatory policing, Brendan DeMelle on Exxon's climate secrets, Josmar Trujillo on militarized "gang" raids,

A Trump presidency requires vigilance on many fronts, but the human rights of half the population should be high on the list. But for corporate media, abortion access is primarily a "hot topic"—rather than a material fact of life for women and families.

A strong contender for most worrisome Trump appointment is making Rex Tillerson, longtime CEO of Exxon Mobil, secretary of State. Plus: Donald Trump looks ready to restart a retrograde, punitive War on Drugs that the country looked to be beginning to ...

What if instead of getting lost in Trump's machinations, media looked at what deals like the one that actually happened with Carrier actually wind up meaning for workers and local economies?

While it's implied that our only choice is between hagiography and hatred, there is actual history that provides context for understanding the role in world events of Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution, which involved other people besides him.

Social justice advocates are getting together to share strategies for protecting vulnerable communities and resisting the predations on our civil rights.

Donald Trump spent his entire campaign demonizing immigrants as dangerous, job-stealing criminals. While denouncing that, media sometimes dismissed it as mainly campaign rhetoric. Will they take the story seriously enough as a Trump administration trie...