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What’s on your digital spoon?
If you spent any time in front of a glowing screen last week, it undoubtedly sent you something about Charlie Kirk. It may have sent you hours of it. Continue Reading
Monetizing Your Fight Or Flight
Fear and anger keep the lights on in American politics and media. They also keep your sympathetic nervous system on a hair trigger. In short bursts, Continue Reading
Breaking News Media Dies of Self-Inflicted Wounds
by Tammy Pondsmith The “mainstream media” is dying the way a drunk karaoke singer goes out at last call—loud, embarrassing, and convinced everyone Continue Reading
What Fear Hides about School Safety
A new Gallup survey finds that 41% of U.S. K-12 parents fear for their child’s physical safety at school—the fourth straight year anxiety has hovered Continue Reading
Top Guns: The Next Generation — Inside the Navy’s Fight to Forge Elite Aviators
On September 16th, National Geographic will launch Top Guns: The Next Generation, a six-part docuseries offering an unprecedented look inside the U.S. Continue Reading
When Outrage Becomes Violence
Every so often, tragedy forces an uncomfortable question: When words serve not to inform, but to inflame, do the purveyors of that rhetoric bear Continue Reading
Epstein, Trump, and the Manufacture of Silence
Remember the good old days when you could turn on the legacy media (CBS, NBC, ABC) or mainstream media (CNN, MSNBC) and watch the news without ever Continue Reading
Where Pain Meets Wonder
I feel like I’ve been thrown off a building. My knees and back ache. My skin is full of cuts and scratches from briars. And I couldn’t be happier. Continue Reading
Living in a World of Facades
In the song "1000 Years" by The Gaslight Anthem, Brian Fallon sings “I heard about a woman once, who did everything ever asked of her. She Continue Reading
The Digital Jihad
Analyzing the Social Media Presence of Hezbollah Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based militant group and political party, has emerged as a significant player Continue Reading
When Telling the Truth Becomes Treason
“If you say that everything your opponent does is evil—even when it helps you or others—maybe you’re the problem.” In current American politics, Continue Reading