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Who Do You Want To Have A Huge 2023?
What will journalism look like in 2023?
Merry Christmas from Parker Molloy and The Present Age
The New York Times Needs To Chill
Can I Interest You In The 1999 Cleveland Browns?
Open Thread: ElonJet as a Case Study of Hypocrisy
The New York Times Doesn't Want to Understand Elon Musk's Politics
The Present Age Weekly Recap: December 9, 2022
Moral Panics and How to Spot Them
Hold On To Your Butts, News Media Industry
Taibbi's "Twitter Files" Flop, But Will It Matter?
The Present Age Weekly Recap: December 2, 2022
It's the Most Wonderful Time of Year: War on Christmas-Time
A Conversation Between The Present Age's Parker Molloy and journa.host's Adam Davidson
The Self-Important Arbiters of Reason and the Scourge of "Both Sides"
I am Once Again Asking the White House Press Corps to Stop Being a Gigantic Embarrassment.
The right's not-so-secret weapon: lots of money for partisan media projects
The Good, the Bad, and the WTF Headlines Covering Trump's Announcement
The clear message of the midterms: the press is out of touch with the public
Grab Some Popcorn and Watch the Twitter Chaos
Actually, Elon Musk Really is a Lot Like Henry Ford
The Present Age Weekly Recap: November 4, 2022
A Republican Senator Threatened to Punish a Company for Speech, But the Press Didn't Care
New feature for The Present Age subscribers: group chat
Happy Halloween, now go listen to Nick Lutsko's spooky music, okay?
Another Successful 'Foxtober' Midterm Election is Under Way
The Present Age Weekly Recap: October 21, 2022
How Right-Wing Media "Hoaxified" Cassidy Hutchinson
Taking a Look at the Associated Press' Bizarre Coverage of the Fetterman/Oz Campaign
The Unbearable Kanye West, the Incapable Press
The Present Age Weekly Recap: October 7, 2022
On Free Speech and Cancel Culture: Recap
On Free Speech and Cancel Culture, Letter Five
"New" Archives: the Life of Marsha P. Johnson
On Free Speech and Cancel Culture, Letter Three
On Free Speech and Cancel Culture, Letter One
People Having Meltdowns Over 'The Little Mermaid' Need to Get a Grip
The Present Age Weekly Recap: September 9, 2022
You have no obligation to subscribe to a newspaper (but you probably should)
NYC Council Member Slams CNN Hire of Muslim Surveillance Program Denier John Miller
What to do When You Accidentally Share False Info Online
Fascists Hate When You Call Them Fascists
The Present Age Weekly Recap: August 26, 2022
What's the deal with Biden's student debt forgiveness plan?
Donald Trump's "Very Fine People"
Stop trying to shoehorn the Salman Rushdie assassination attempt into your weird "cancel culture" BS
The Present Age Weekly Recap: August 12, 2022
'Lightyear' and the weaponization of "woke"
What Cracker Barrel can tell us about culture war
How right-wing commentators like Alex Jones ride mainstream media outlets to fame and fortune
William F. Buckley, a little bit of lying, and a lot of propaganda
The Present Age Weekly Recap: July 29, 2022
The future of marriage inequality?
The Present Age Weekly Recap: July 22, 2022
Isaac Chotiner's Alan Dershowitz Q&A is the blueprint for "cancel culture" coverage
Abortion and the importance of free speech
FiveThirtyEight's anti-trans smear
The Present Age Weekly Recap: July 15, 2022
"The sound of children screaming has been removed"
"Derangement Syndrome" Derangement Syndrome
The Present Age Weekly Recap: July 8, 2022 — Plus, today only, get 20% off an annual subscription
Generating outrage bait? Super easy! Barely an inconvenience!
Nobody is trying to ban the word "woman."
The Present Age Weekly Recap: July 1, 2022
Why Lauren Rankin won't "debate" abortion rights
A moratorium on "cancel culture" stories, please
The Present Age Weekly Recap: June 24, 2022
Tucker Carlson: king of cancel culture
On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog
The Present Age Weekly Recap: June 17, 2022
Parker Molloy went on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes to discuss anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on the right
The anti-LGBTQ right is going to get people killed
The Present Age Weekly Recap: June 10, 2022
Ilya Shapiro and the media-victimhood industrial complex
Yashar Ali is ready to talk about that magazine profile
The bleak spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial
A look back at the first year of The Present Age, Part 3
A look back at the first year of The Present Age, Part 2
A look back at the first year of The Present Age, Part 1
The Present Age Weekly Recap: May 27
Just like they did in 2015, Republicans are falsely blaming trans people for a mass shooting
Bad arguments about speech, made better
The Present Age Weekly Recap: May 20
Mass shootings, inaction, rinse, repeat
AUDIO: Stefanik staffer twists himself in knots defending "pedo grifters" comment
The Present Age Weekly Recap: May 13
My interview with Tim Herrera for his Freelancing With Tim newsletter
The Present Age Weekly Recap: May 6
The words we use: on the mistake of media's use of "pro-life" framing
A history of the "the Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists" argument
The Present Age Weekly Recap: April 29, 2022
No, you don't want complete and total free speech. Trust me.
It didn't have to be this way, Twitter.
Bonus content from my new piece for Rolling Stone about Tucker Carlson and precarious manhood
The Present Age Weekly Recap: April 22, 2022
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here
The big lie about the Libs of TikTok Twitter account
Outrage spaghetti stuck to an online wall
The Present Age Weekly Recap: April 15, 2022
My new essay at DAME Magazine on the topic of opinion journalism
Which party is actually trying to censor speech? (Hint: It's not the Democrats)
Am I galaxy-brained enough for the newsletter world?
The Present Age Weekly Recap: April 8, 2022
Bad advice has made life a living hell for trans people
The Present Age Weekly Recap: April 1, 2022
On J.K. Rowling's Predictable Path
This art was made by a computer
Twitter needs to get its act together
The Present Age Weekly Recap: March 25, 2022
The SCOTUS confirmation hearings are showing us exactly who Republicans are
Fact-checking in the first month of a war
Fine, let's talk about trans athletes
The Present Age Weekly Recap: March 18, 2022
I've got a bad feeling about this
Is it just me or are the "cancel culture" and "debate" takes getting even lazier?
The Present Age Weekly Recap: March 11, 2022
Who's Afraid of Taylor Lorenz?
Have we learned nothing since Freedom Fries?
The Present Age Weekly Recap: March 4, 2022
Getting a lot of "Boss Baby" vibes from this war...
GOP Sen. Rick Scott has a terrifying plan to drive transgender people from public life
The Present Age Weekly Recap: February 25, 2022
The Present Age Weekly Recap: February 18, 2022
Here's why right-wing media invented a story about Adele being called transphobic
Discussing "cancel culture" on the "Politics + Media 101" podcast [transcript included]
Why many of the "open everything" COVID-19 arguments are so dishonest
The Present Age Weekly Recap: February 11, 2022
It's hard to trust the press when journalists keep saving scoops for future books
Spotify got exactly what it paid for in Joe Rogan. Now what?
The Present Age Weekly Recap: February 4, 2022
The "free speech" crowd sure is quiet about GOP efforts to ban books and criminalize dissent.
The Present Age Weekly Recap: January 28, 2022
Understanding the Twitter pile-on.
I never knew so many people wanted to bang the Green M&M.
The Daily Show's Matt Negrin may or may not be Chuck Todd's nemesis. [podcast + transcript]
Martin Luther King Jr. on the filibuster
The tighter a video is clipped, the less inclined you should be to share it.
Even without the assault on the Capitol, it was still a coup. (Part 2 of 2)
Even without the assault on the Capitol, it was still a coup. (Part 1 of 2)