Democracy

Book Review: “Hedged” — How Private Equity Destroyed the Newspaper Business

January 16, 2024
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Newspapers are still our most reliable source of local journalism. Private equity, though, is squeezing the life out of newsrooms as greedy owners cash in.

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Book Review: Advertisements for Democracy — Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence

April 9, 2023
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Guns, anti-Semitism, paranoid conspiracy theories — it never gets old.

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Book Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War”

May 25, 2020
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“Politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy.”

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