news media

Does being a good citizen require keeping up with current events?

Psychologists describe a "middle knowledge" of the reality of death. How much of this knowledge is good for us?

The latest in can-you-believe-this-guy campaign-trail videos: Senate candidate Eric Hovde, who—like Montgomery Burns with a Wisconsin accent—reduces media coverage of low-income people facing service cuts to "sob stories."

Jay Smooth’s video blog is always good; last week’s was especially good.

When the United Farm Workers announced their “Take Our Jobs”
campaign this summer, I put it in my “maybe blog about this” folder and
never came back to it. It’s a clever idea—legal residents are invited
to replace migrant farm workers in the field—but the news media didn’t write a whole lot about it then, either. They are today.