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‘Museums Like the Whitney Are Accountable to the Communities They Claim to Serve’

Posted August 8, 201900:14:36

"What we’ve tried to say, both as artists and as people living in the city, to the Whitney, is that, 'No, Kanders can’t be on a board of the Whitney...

NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela

Posted August 5, 2019

The exclusion of Chavista voices is endemic to NPR’s coverage of Venezuela, in gross violation of the outlet’s own ethics handbook.

‘Democracy Has Become a Joke on the Island’

Posted August 2, 201900:20:05

"The mainstream media still seems to be focused on the idea that this is all caused by a corrupt government in Puerto Rico, with no visible narrative...

Media Downplay Climate Disruption’s Ever-Growing Role in Driving Migration

Posted July 30, 2019

It would be easy for even a diligent news consumer to not know that climate change is one of the central factors driving refugees to cross the border,...

What Do Black Voters Want? NYT’s Edsall Says It’s What ‘Conservative’ Democrats Want

Posted July 24, 2019

Election Focus 2020: Thomas Edsall is playing a shell game—lumping self-identified black and white “moderates” and “conservatives” together,...