Recent Highlights
How the Media Launders Fossil Fuel Industry Propaganda Through Branded Content
Native advertising has spread misinformation on everything from the “superfood” moringa to Thai seafood slavery, and has raised serious questions about journalistic ethics.
By Sharon Lerner in the Intercept.
Still Funding Confederacy
For more than 100 years, the Virginia and other former slave states have been subsidizing not only Confederate cemeteries, but many of the hundreds of Confederate monuments and “heritage” sites that mark public space across the South.
By Brian Palmer in Richmond Free Press.
Right Makes Might
Long before Trump came on the scene, key congressional Republicans had been sidling up to nativist and authoritarian leaders across the globe.
By Sarah Posner in the New Republic.
Inside the Surveillance Program IBM Built for Rodrigo Duterte
IBM partnered with Philippine law enforcement despite evidence of police complicity in death squads.
By George Joseph in the Intercept.
Beto O’Rourke, friend of the fossil fuel industry, is no climate hero
O’Rourke wants to be everything to everyone. To take a look back at his career, that’s an invitation he’s extended to the fossil fuel industry.
By Kate Aronoff in the Guardian.
Young People Feel Betrayed by Adults Over the Climate Crisis. Today, They’re Going on Strike.
For her 16th Birthday, Maddy Fernands asked her parents for an unusual gift: to switch the family to wind power.
By Sharon Lerner in the Intercept.
States Crack Down on Broker Abuse as the SEC Dithers
Wall Street and investor advocates face off over stockbrokers’ obligations to their customers.
By Susan Antilla in the Intercept.
The End of the City on a Hill
A burgeoning alliance with Europe’s far right is radically altering the Christian right’s view of American democracy.
By Sarah Posner in VICE Magazine.
Gary Younge: ‘Our understanding of democracy is under threat’
Our editor-at-large on the six US elections he’s covered so far, the upheaval in politics – and why many Republicans like him.
Gary Younge interviewed by the Guardian.
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