A photograph that captures the reality of our political moment. Plus, an AI-generated reflection of Islamophobia from The Free Press, and a dystopian documentary on male body image.
What if on 9/11 our major media outlets had employed reporters whose sole job it was to cover the rhetoric of politics—to ...
A student reflects on leaving the law to pursue his writing dreams.
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In the weeks after October 7, 2023, Omar El Akkad, the author and journalist, posted on X about Israel’s intense bombardment ...
NorthStar Civic Media promises “independent local reporting.” Its founder worked on Democratic campaigns, and Democratic funders spent more than a million dollars on Meta ads promoting one of its ...
Donald Trump never had the authority, or the political support, media moguls seemed to think he did. What’s next for the ...
Pitchbot can now retire the phrase, because our political media pick it up just as frequently, under the guise of something ...
On Tuesday night, Kalshi turned into a midterms hub—a one-stop shop for election data, sourced straight from the Associated ...
Part of it is she’s an incumbent, and part of it is it’s an image that’s cultivated by her PR people and by the Maine media ...
On Saturday, in downtown Washington, DC, six thousand people descended on Crooked Con, a political conference hosted by Crooked Media—the company founded by former Obama administration staffers Jon ...
Steve Kornacki and Hasan Piker went head-to-head, and Donald Trump called in.
Companies like Kalshi and Polymarket are reaping huge profits and reshaping journalism to fit their business interests.