“To innovate and change, we need to know what’s broken and how it needs to be fixed,” says the Solutions Journalism Network website. “The
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Photoshopping beauty: An international experiment
“In the U.S., Photoshop has become a symbol of our society’s unobtainable [sic.] standards for beauty. My project, Before & After, examines how these
St. Louis Post-Dispatch drops George Will: Congratulations
As a longtime subscriber to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, I’m happy to see that the newspaper has removed George Will from its op-ed page.
George Will is so wrong about rape
It’s hard enough to come to terms with sexual assault—the inevitable cycle of self-blame, self-loathing, abhorrence for the attacker, fear and paranoia, nagging doubts,
This loser has every right to be sore
[by Arthur Lieber] If every rule has an exception, thent “no one likes a sore loser” has Stephen Coburn as its exception. This Wilfred
Time to stop bashing CNN
In many progressive circles, it’s become open season on CNN. The oldest cable news network has become the recent whipping boy of humorist Jon
This ad wrecked my morning
This full-page ad appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine this morning [May 11, 2014]. They’re kidding, right? They lifted this from The
“Draft Day” offers tips on what it takes to lead the country
It may be that the movie “Draft Day,” currently in theaters, is just a niche film for football fans. It’s for real fans who
From welfare to riches to (corporate) welfare
It’s the classic story on ESPN about an athlete; how he or she goes from welfare to becoming a super athlete who is super-rich.
How the media went wrong on the CBO “Obamacare” report
When the Congressional Budget Office released its report on the Affordable Care Act on Feb. 4, 2014, the headline in the next morning’s St.