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Re-reading Rousseau's "The Social Contract." | Continue reading
A onrush of new legislation to support local news. | Continue reading
Muckraking's symbiosis with the constitutional order under Donald Trump. | Continue reading
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Trump/Musk, the billionaire-CEO, and the American soft spot for tyranny. | Continue reading
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AI had a trust problem when lives and homes were on the line. | Continue reading
A callout to readers. | Continue reading
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How California lawmakers can support getting more of the best L.A. fire coverage. | Continue reading
A few brighter spots in the information environment around L.A.'s fires. | Continue reading
The breaking-news experience is awful for consumers. | Continue reading
Gannett and Reuters come for one of the final corners for legacy media that had resisted the financialization of journalism. | Continue reading
Concrete ideas for news consumers, journalists and policymakers. | Continue reading
Toward tomorrow's popular press. | Continue reading
On the power and limits of disclosure. | Continue reading
The Aussies build on the policy that started it all: an update to the News Media Bargaining Code. | Continue reading
On an increasingly protectionist internet, saving TikTok might not be what the First Amendment is for. | Continue reading
How the next Trump administration's attitude toward corporate competition could be worse than nothing. | Continue reading
On Donald Trump, Kash Patel and gangsterism in the democracy. | Continue reading
Creator-based journalism has a market problem: The market is bad. | Continue reading
Journalists have a democracy problem, in addition to all our other problems. | Continue reading
The owner of the Los Angeles Times now says the Biden's administration's handling of Gaza did play a factor in his non-endorsement decision. | Continue reading
The truth is going out of business as technology turns us into a folk-story society, ripe for influence by a demagogue. | Continue reading
Contemplating the purpose of the press after the Trump revolution. | Continue reading
The fight for freedom is a war on boredom. | Continue reading
Donald Trump's haunting obsession with disfigurement in the democracy. | Continue reading
Listen to journalists. | Continue reading
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Billionaire owners at Los Angeles Times and Washington Post set a standard of cowardice in facing a crucial election. | Continue reading