Edward Herman, the co-author (with Noam Chomsky) ofManufacturing Consent, has died. He was 92. His work has never been more relevant. Manufacturing Consent was a kind of bible of media criticism for a generation of dissident thinkers. The book described with great clarity how the system of private commercial media …
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Exactly one year ago today, Donald Trump was elected president. For many Democrats, it was a trauma surpassed in their lifetimes only by 9/11. For some, it remains unsurpassed for sheer shock/horror value. And according to The Washington Post, not much has changed: “Confronted with the events of the past …
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Below is an excerpt from The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and theRemaking of the Civilized World, to be published by Little, Brown on Oct 24, 2017. As cities around the world adapt to the harsh realities of climate change, the divide between the doomed and the saved …
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Myeshia Johnson, the pregnant widow of the late Sgt. La David Johnson, spoke out during an interview on Good Morning America Monday, affirming Rep. Frederica Wilson’s statements last week about a botched condolence call with President Trump – an account he has repeatedly refuted. “I heard his stumbling on trying …
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The NRA may now be behind an effort to regulate a device that helped turn Sunday’s country music festival in Las Vegas into a war zone, but the broader gun control debate in Washington remains largely unchanged. Though its leaders are rarely seen or heard from on the Hill, the …
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Evening, August 22nd, 2017, a convention center in Phoenix. It’s Donald Trump‘s true coming-out party as an insane person. It looks like the same old Trump up there on the stage: same boxy blue suit, same obligatory flag pin and tangerine combover, same too-long reddish power tie swinging below his …
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