Last week, an article in Slate entitled "How Black People Use Twitter: The latest research on race and microblogging" caused a bit of a stir and some moments of sheer hilarity on Twitter and in the...
My last article for Global Comment explored how we have lost our common architecture of activism that created and guided mass movements of the past. I argued that the individualistic modern world...
Let me be the first to say this to you: Welcome to the American working class. That was Barbara Ehrenreich, addressing the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism this year....
CBS has traditionally maintained a ban on advocacy ads, but when the network announced their intent to relax this restriction, Focus on the Family took the opportunity to create an anti-abortion ad....
The future of journalism: it's the subject of books, panel discussions, and countless blog posts and news articles, most of which revolve around the ways we can fund media after the shift to the Web....
It has been a busy year in Irish politics – and hectic to say the least: first the never-ending revelations into Catholic sex abuse finally implicated the state, then the public was treated to the...
After ten years of marriage, Jon and Kate Gosselin of "John & Kate Plus 8" game filed for divorce. Any family separating after years of sharing their lives together would be a sad sight. Yet for...
The horrifying connection between incest and rape continues to dominate headlines across the world this year. Mackenzie Phillips, a popular child TV star of the 1970s, has come forward with...
Political protest has always been an outsider's game, a struggle for attention from what tends to be a small group that believes it can win over more people with more visibility. Sometimes it's a...
The University of Oxford has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, thanks to a few unruly members of its now disowned Conservative Association. The sordid tale revolves around an event...