"Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old?," inquires The New York Times. "Why Do Such Elderly People Run America?," The Atlantic wonders. "Gerontocracy Is...
2022-09-21 14:18:50 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patron News Brief, we wish a dubious farewell to QEII and examine the American pathology––both organic and media-curated––of obsessing over weird British royals.
2022-09-20 20:25:32 +0000 UTC View Post
"Education... is a great equalizer of conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery," stated school reformer Horace Mann in 1848. "Math is the great equalizer," preached Jaime Escal...
2022-09-14 14:31:10 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patron News Brief we discuss one of the most played out local news tropes: dopey local reporters trying out shooting simulators that allegedly “train” officers for “split-second” ...
2022-08-17 16:03:46 +0000 UTC View Post
A white collar worker wrestles with whether to accept a promotion or help his co-workers organize. Salt miners stand up to the company that’s taken over their town. A factory wor...
2022-08-03 18:10:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Chances are you’ve seen this storyline play out on either a big or small screen: An FBI agent investigates a prominent labor leader. Or maybe a union boss orders a hit on a recalcitrant member of...
2022-07-27 14:25:44 +0000 UTC View Post
In this public News Brief, we detail the strange quadrennial tradition of acting like the US is "abandoning its principles" by reaffirming decades-long alliances with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
2022-07-20 15:44:49 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Citations Needed Live Interview with Josh Mason, Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York, recorded virtually on July 8, 2022, we discuss how media&...
2022-07-13 16:19:51 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, "Forced Pregnancies, Gutting the EPA, and Growing Frustration Over 'Vote Harder' Messaging," we break down the latest attacks on the liberal state and Democratic lead...
2022-06-29 16:20:49 +0000 UTC View Post
"John Roberts Passes Test: Politicization of Judicial Appointment is Disheartening," read a 2005 headline from Salisbury, Maryland’s Daily Times. "Ignore the attacks on Neil Gorsuch. He...
2022-06-22 21:32:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Citations Needed Live Interview with Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Layla A. Jones, recorded virtually on May 20, 2022, we discuss the advent and massive influence of the Eyewitnes...
2022-06-15 16:48:19 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, we examine two New York Times articles—one about Chesa Boudin and one about Eric Adams—and how they serve as object lessons in how liberal outlets repackaging 1990s-era Toug...
2022-06-08 15:57:22 +0000 UTC View PostHi all --
We hope you are having a good summer! Below is this fortnight's newsletter. As always we are extremely grateful for your patronage and support.
-- Florence, Adam, Nima, ...
2022-06-07 18:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patron-only News Brief we discuss the latest fake ISIS story whose big, scary headline has little relation to reality and how, 20 years on since the start of "the war on terror," our media ...
2022-06-03 21:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
"Follow The Data" is the name of a Bloomberg Philanthropies podcast that debuted 2016. "How Data Analysis Is Driving Policing," a 2018 NPR headline read. "Data suggests that schools might be one of...
2022-06-01 19:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, we discuss the phoned-in, cynical response by Republicans to mass shooting and how they've devolved into a dark, meta self-parody.
2022-05-27 15:51:26 +0000 UTC View Post
(Yes, we're sending this post around again because we're just so excited - and, we corrected a typo that said Citations Needed has been around for four seasons, when it's actually been
After a white nationalist kills 10 in a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, those most responsible for mainstreaming white nationalist talking points try and evade responsibility.
Criminal Minds. Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer. Inside the Criminal Mind. Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.
Each of these is the title of a series, fictional or otherwi...
2022-05-11 14:41:28 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, thanks again for all your support. Here's this fortnight's newsletter.
Look out for a brand new episode tomorrow and more Patron-only New Briefs in the next few weeks. We ...
2022-05-10 21:14:21 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patreon-only News Brief we discuss Sarah and Adam's recent substack article breaking down the most popular anti-union talking points and they they don't hold water.
"NFTs May Seem Like Frivolous Fads. They Should Be the Future of Music," argues Rolling Stone magazine. "How to Buy Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies: A Guide for New Crypto Investors," advises TI...
2022-05-04 15:36:16 +0000 UTC View Post
"Is it a higher compliment to be called a) a person of real feeling, or b) a consistently reasonable person?" "Are you more successful at a) following a carefully worked-out plan, or b) dealing wit...
2022-04-27 14:47:34 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patron-only News Brief, we break down why it's so important to both right-wingers and carceral liberals that California be propped as a failed socialist nanny state that's gone too far, rat...
2022-04-15 14:43:46 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Citations Needed Live Interview with Luke Savage from 3/22, we discuss his upcoming collection of essays, "The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History,...
2022-04-13 15:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, here's this fortnight's newsletter. Thanks as always for your support––t helps keep the show ad free and totally independent and we are very grateful for this.
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2022-04-13 00:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post
"It is safe to say that almost no city needs to tolerate slums," wrote New York City official Robert Moses in 1945. "Our ancestors came across the ocean in sailing...
2022-04-06 15:39:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, we examine the convoluted, vague rhetorical labor involved in making purging unhoused populations with cops seem humane and anodyne.
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In this public News Brief, we examine the most unhelpful, glib, self-aggrandizing, and cynical responses from American media to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
SHOW NOTES
"Let the Culture Wars Begin. Again," The New York Times announces. "How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy," warns Politico. "As The Culture Wars Shift, President Trump Struggles ...
2022-03-09 17:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post