The campaign to remove Michael Moore’s new documentary from the Internet – led by Moore’s erstwhile progressive “allies” – is a significant advance in the censorship revolution | Continue reading
The Blue Party’s Trump-era Embrace of Authoritarianism Isn’t Just Wrong, it’s a Fatal Political Mistake | Continue reading
As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet | Continue reading
It’s early days, but the Federal Reserve “bazooka” has mostly impacted the 1% | Continue reading
How the coronavirus is creating a political opportunity to overturn one of the worst practices of the kleptocracy era | Continue reading
Substack is now my full-time job. | Continue reading
Another era of debt-fueled profiteering is ending with a bailout. How we’re institutionalizing the unfairness economy | Continue reading
I’ve lived through a few coups. They’re insane, random, and terrifying, like watching sports, except your political future depends on the score. The kickoff begins when a key official decides to buck the executive. From that moment, government becomes a high-speed head-counting e … | Continue reading
“If I told you, I’d have to kill you.” It’s been a tired pop-cliché meme for ages. Way back in 2000, when Adam Garcia tried to lay it on Piper Perabo in Coyote Ugly, she groaned, “That’s original.” It drew eye rolls in Top Gun in 1986. Going back at least that far, we’ve known it … | Continue reading
Note to readers: call this a two-part preface to Untitledgate. Chapter One, coming soon, is about the origins of the investigation, but I thought it made sense to go through the Mueller report now that’s out. Some conclusions follow. The final revelation, | Continue reading
Note to readers: in light of news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation is complete, I’m releasing this chapter of Hate Inc. early, with a few new details added up top. Nobody wants to hear this, but news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is headed home with … | Continue reading
Thirty Years After Manufacturing Consent, How Mass Media Keeps Thought Inbounds I grew up in the media. In seventies Massachusetts, my father took a job at a fledgling ABC affiliate called WCVB-TV. These being the glory days of local television news, my childhood ended up being a … | Continue reading
I was saddened to read a story in the Washington Post this past summer about the shattered partnership of John Heilemann and Mark Halperin of MSNBC, Bloomberg , ABC, and Game Change fame. Because of Halperin’s sexual harassment scandal, Heilemann now refuses to work with his old … | Continue reading
Adventures of the Unidentified Black Male Keep your spot to yourself As soon as I pull into my driveway, I see Brutus coming. “Yo, Huey!” he says, starting to cross the street. Oh, shit. Brutus will talk your fucking head off if you let him. He’s an OG, maybe 60-65 years old, Blo … | Continue reading