What do you stand for?
Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is appealing for support from a set of politicians he has repeatedly relied on in his career: Republicans.
Jeff Cohen
Jeff B. Cohen is an American journalist, media critic, professor, and the founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watchdog group in the US. He is a retired associate professor of journalism at Ithaca College, where he was an endowed chair and founding Director of the Park Center for Independent Media.
If Biden won’t even heed Schumer’s urgent advice to give the country an FDR-like push forward – and instead listens to the “go-slow/go-small” warnings of giant corporations and their media – the GOP will win big in 2022
One of FAIR’s main goals was to take what had been a marginalized progressive media critique and push that critique into the faces of mainstream journalists
CNN or MSNBC or NPR or similar outlets bombard us with hour after hour with the idea that the U.S. has the absolute right to impose sanctions on country after country overseas if they violate human rights or are not democratic
To effectively confront the enormous problems facing our country and world, progressives need to soberly assess everything — good, bad and mixed
Chauvin has played a useful role for corporate media – a rare villain who could be identified and named, a symbol of deadly racism
Tributes — including from countless organizations calling themselves progressive — are routinely evasive about the anti-militarist ideals that King passionately expressed during the final year of his life
The saga of Emanuel’s three decades in politics is an epic tale of methodical contempt for progressive values
Previous Democratic administrations have not delivered on promises made, and there should be maximum pressure put on Biden right away
A slow and steady “third Obama term” might thrill corporate media pundits. But it won’t get the job done on the climate emergency. Just ask a scientist.