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...

What now for electoral reform and congressional diversity? For the environment? For Muslim-Americans and others made vulnerable by the so-called "War on Terror" in its domestic and international fronts?

Corporate Media's main method of undermining the significance of what's happening in North Dakota has been to simply ignore it. If that maneuver is failing, it's due to independent media working to get the stories from Standing Rock out,

Corporate journalists rely on the First Amendment, but it's increasingly unclear if the First Amendment can rely on them. The relative lack of interest in the impact of spying on activists—a practice with a long and disturbing history given new power b...