News Brief: "Peak TV," Streamer Studio Accounting Gimmicks, and the Precarity of Hollywood Labor

Over 15,000 civilians dead and almost a million reported cases of cholera. 17 million people unsure of where their next meal will come from, including 7 million on the brink of starvation. Nearly 3 mi...

29 Marras 20171h 9min

In this News Brief Nima and Adam catch up with the latest from the #J20 trial, how the media shaped coverage early in favor of the state, and the racist roots of criminalizing protest. With guest Sam ...

22 Marras 201735min

Editorial boards are the establishment voice from above, handing out decrees of moral and political import behind an anonymous byline. Major papers like The New York Times and The Washington Post have...

15 Marras 20171h 12min

Real Estate sections are mostly breezy, fun profiles of the super rich buying up houses and remodeling the ones they already own. Harmless escapist fun? Maybe. But how we write about real estate revea...

8 Marras 201749min

We are told time and again from Republicans and nominal liberals alike that Iran desperately wants to acquire nuclear weapons, was "racing toward the bomb" before the implementation of the multilatera...

1 Marras 201753min

"Stumbling", "sliding", "drawn into" war––the media frequently assumes the US is bumbling its way around the world. The idea that the United States operates in "good faith" is taken for granted for mo...

25 Loka 20171h 4min

Since the mid-2000's, a specific breed of liberalism has emerged broadly called "New Atheism". While the movement is hardly a monolith, it has at its core features of liberal chauvinism, anti-"politic...

11 Loka 20171h 14min

If broad government programs are so popular why don't we just vote them into existence? One of the primary barriers to democratic socialism--or spending in general--is racist media coverage and racist...

4 Loka 20171h 5min