In a time of eroding journalistic freedoms, a new book chronicles the deliberate effort to use libel law to bankrupt the independent media we have left.
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Trump’s Weakness Shows Through
Today on TAP: The executive order purporting to cut NPR and PBS funding was supposed to go through Congress, but Trump had to go it alone.
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Cold War Kids
Apple’s hit show ‘Severance’ was originally about the class struggle; Season 2 stifles that in favor of corporate crisis management.
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Producer of Luigi Mangione Documentary Had Previous Show Canceled After Police Killing
Dan Abrams’s documentary on the UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying takes the police perspective. That’s common for the longtime journalist and legal analyst.
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Pulled in All Directions
Chris Hayes’s new book argues that the demand for attention has taken over every facet of our lives.
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Disney’s Catch and Kill
Disney wanted to corner the market on sports streaming. A rival blocked them. So Disney bought the rival.
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Requiem for a Comedy Dream
Jason Reitman’s new film about the origins of ‘Saturday Night Live’ forces a consideration of how the show turned into comfort food for its scared, self-satisfied liberal audiences.
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Democrats Lost the Propaganda War
The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024. There’s a better way.
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Our Cults, Ourselves
Is the best way to understand the MAGA movement to binge-watch docuseries about charismatic leaders sending their acolytes to ruin? Tune in and find out.
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Broken Cords
We’re moving toward replacing cable TV with a bundle of streaming networks. Will local and news programming get lost in the transition?