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You Can't Win a Debate You Refuse to Have: Why Democrats Shouldn't Stay Silent on Trans Rights

The State of Journalism, According to Some of the People Actually Doing It

Want to Know How Democrats Should Handle Trans Rights? Ask Zohran Mamdani

Politicians Are Supposed to Lead, Not Just Follow Polls

The Right's Conspiracy Theory Machine Goes Into Overdrive After Minnesota Shooting

ABC Fires Terry Moran on White House Command

The Quote That Reveals What's Really Behind Anti-Trans "Concerns"

The New York Times Is About to Do More Damage to Trans People

Celebrating Four Years of TPA with 25% Off Annual Subscriptions

The Study Republicans Demanded About Trans Kids Just Backfired. Guess What the Media Isn't Covering?

Watch CBS News' Scott Pelley Warn Graduates About the Threats Facing American Democracy

Updates on the Chicago Sun-Times' AI-Generated Summer Reading List Disaster

The Chicago Sun-Times Published an AI-Generated Summer Reading List Full of Fake Books — And This is Just the Beginning

The Right's Outrage Machine Takes No Beach Days

The Grok 'White Genocide' Incident Shows How AI Can Become a Propaganda Machine

CBP Detains Hasan Piker: When Border Control Becomes Thought Police

Qatar's $400 Million "Gift" to Trump Is Corruption on an Unprecedented Scale

The Ventriloquist Court: AI "Victim Statements" and the Death of Reality

The Racist Fundraising Machine: How Calling a Child the N-Word Made One Woman $700,000

Major News Outlets Can't Bring Themselves to Call Conversion Therapy What It Is

"Just Say Yes": Trump Demands Media Abandon Reality for His Version

Media Manipulation Watch: The Forces Behind What You're Reading

The Radical Right's Culture Capture: A Conversation with Ana Marie Cox

CBS News Falls to Trump: The Shocking Resignation of '60 Minutes' Producer Bill Owens

The Danger of "Finger to the Wind" Politics

"Not Very Compelling": How NPR's Public Editor Dismissed the Largest Protests of 2025

When Baseball Forgot Its Courage: MLB's DEI Capitulation

Meta's Right Turn: When "Fixing Bias" Means Embracing It

The Folk Devils Keep Changing, But the Panic Stays the Same

Send This John Oliver Segment to Anyone Still Confused About Trans Athletes

Print Media to Mass Protests: "Please Turn to Page 18"

"Absolutely Not": How Kat Abughazaleh Rejected Media's Trans Scapegoating

The Amber Ruffin WHCD Cancellation Is Journalism's Latest Embarrassment

Navigating Trans Day of Visibility in Trump's America

The ICE Detention of a Turkish Student Is a Serious Free Speech Test

Media's Mixed Success With Trump's Voter Registration Order

Watch Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Reject the Politics of Trans Abandonment

Renaming Reality: Trump's Gulf Power Play and Media's Timid Response

Is Legacy Media Dead?

Republicans Aren't Abandoning Free Speech Principles — They Never Had Any

Book Review: 'The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource' by Chris Hayes

Media Matters Report on Conservative Media Dominance Reveals What Progressive Donors Don't Want to Hear

This Is How You Interview a Government Official

The Media Treated Trump's Tesla Stunt Like a Car Show, Not Corruption

Another Dark Day at the Bezos Post: Ruth Marcus Resigns After Censorship

Spicy Autocomplete: The LA Times Outsources "Balance" to Algorithms

"Not Exactly Consequential": NYT Dismisses Trump's War on Trans Americans

When Headlines Fail: Trump's Empty IVF Promise and the Woman Who Believed It

Jeff Bezos Just Announced The Washington Post Will Now Be His Personal Megaphone

"That Feels Indefensible": MSNBC's New Direction Leads Rachel Maddow to Speak Out

Democrats Could Learn Something from Former NFL Punter Chris Kluwe

Stop Analyzing Trump's Unhinged Ideas Like They're Normal Policy Proposals

The Government Is Literally Erasing Trans People from American History

Trump Banned AP from the Oval Office Over the "Gulf of Mexico." That's a Bigger Deal Than You Think.

The New York Times Discovers Its Conscience on Trans Rights — to an Extent

When It Comes to Covering Musk's Government Takeover, WIRED Is Showing Everyone How It's Done

The Media Is Missing the Story: Elon Musk Is Staging a Coup

Trump's Response to the Potomac Crash Shows His Playbook. The Media Shouldn't Follow It.

No Regrets, Just Fear

When Cruelty Becomes Cool

The Price of Speaking Up in Trump's America

News Organizations Are Tiptoeing Around What We All Saw

The Washington Post Would Like to Sell You Some "Riveting Storytelling"

Free Our Feeds Wants to Make Social Media Billionaire-Proof

Meta's 'Free Speech' Push Will Make Real Conversations About Trans Issues Impossible

The Right's Wildfire Lies Spread Faster Than the Flames

Mark Zuckerberg Just Made His Trump Loyalty Pledge

A Cartoonist Just Exposed Everything Wrong With Billionaire-Owned Media

Even Without the Assault on the Capitol, January 6, 2021 Was Still a Coup

Meta's AI "Users" Are the Last Thing Social Media Needs