Now that Betsy DeVos is confirmed as Education secretary, media need to disrupt the set of myths that carried her through, despite an evident lack of experience or expertise: Myths to do with "school choice" and "accountability,

Some media accounts are describing the first raid on Trump's watch as "botched," but that's not the same as questioning it, much less putting it in a broader context of what's happening in Yemen and what the US is doing there.

Every day of the Trump administration brings new reasons to protest. But the mass arrest of hundreds of people protesting the inauguration, along with legal observers and journalists, tells us that the right to speak up still needs protection.

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?