On the Media

Trump's Guide to Stealing an Election

Where Is Austin Tice?

The White House on Mute

President Trump’s recent ban on news organizations like CNN, MSNBC, and Politico highlights a deepening conflict between the executive branch and the press. This confrontation forced a rare, unified response from the White House press corps, marking a departure from previous patterns of fragmented, individual resistanc...

The New Rules Of War Are There Are No Rules

How Extinction Entered the AI Debate

How To Make A Documentary, With John Wilson

Haitians Live in a Dual State in Ohio Right Now

Dave Jorgenson on Politics in the Influencer Age

The Pentagon is Waging War on Its Own Paper

A Look Back at *The* 9/11 Truther Movie

The 9/11 truther movement emerged not as a fringe anomaly, but as a direct response to the profound national trauma and subsequent government deception following the 2001 attacks. The viral success of the 2005 documentary Loose Change, directed by Dylan Avery, capitalized on a cultural vacuum where Americans, disillusi...

Finance Bros Are Coming for the Public Airwaves

Shortwave radio, a medium once defined by global reach and hobbyist experimentation, currently sits at the center of a conflict between grassroots pirate broadcasters and high-speed financial firms. These corporations, organized as the Shortwave Modernization Coalition, seek to exploit the unique ionospheric propagatio...

How AI Chatbots are Infiltrating Classrooms

Long Live the Art of Shoe-Leather Reporting!

Behind the Scenes of 'American Emergency'

How the U.S. Government Built an Underground City, and Other State Secrets

FEMA faces an existential crisis as extreme weather events increase in frequency and severity while the agency struggles against deep-seated public distrust and political hostility. Born from Cold War-era civil defense and "continuity of government" planning, the agency’s historical secrecy fostered long-standing consp...

Pablo Torre Is Changing Sports

The Story Behind Trump’s Terrible Approval Rating

Trump Has Forever Changed America's Place in the World

F@#$ the AI Overlords

The "reverse centaur" metaphor defines the current AI landscape, where humans are increasingly relegated to serving machines rather than using them as tools for efficiency. This dynamic, driven by tech barons and investors, prioritizes cost-cutting and the replacement of skilled labor over genuine innovation. AI curren...

ICE's Summer Spending Spree