A Hong Kong Protest Icon Is Jailed
Global Joshua Wong has been sentenced to more than a year in jail. Avenues for dissent in the city are narrowing. Chris McGrath / Getty Of the issues Joshua Wong has faced during his
Global Joshua Wong has been sentenced to more than a year in jail. Avenues for dissent in the city are narrowing. Chris McGrath / Getty Of the issues Joshua Wong has faced during his
Global A decades-old legal argument used by Hitler has found support in Beijing. Ullstein / AFP / Getty / The Atlantic When Hong Kong erupted into protest this summer against a national-security law imposed
In journalism, there is such a thing as agenda-setting – how the mass media — newspapers, radio, and TV, and the plurality of online channels — prioritize the news for publication. The idea that some news stories would take precedence over others gained credence with thought leaders, Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw, during the 1968…
November 25, 2020 Fox News reaches settlement with family of slain DNC staffer This story, plus YouTube temporarily suspends OANN, BuzzFeed inherits diversity problem in HuffPost acquisition, and more, all in today’s media headlines. Top Stories Nov
Frustrated by the lecture he’d received on the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict during his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996, President Bill Clinton exploded to aides afterward — “Who’s the f***ing superpower here?” Fast forward
The conventional wisdom is that the special relationship between Washington and London will suffer a blow under President-elect Joe Biden. But that needn’t happen. In the phone call between Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, both leaders expressed a
Joe Biden was proclaimed the winner of the 2020 American presidential race on Saturday, Nov. 7. Biden crossed the 270 Electoral College votes threshold needed to secure the presidency. The rest of the votes are still being counted. They are yet to be certified by each of America’s 50 states. In electoral parlance, Biden is now…
Commenting on the jubilant celebrations that spilt into American cities upon the announcement on November 7, 2020, of Joe Biden winning the U.S. presidential election, activist and political commentator Van Jones spoke on CNN of the politics of joy. The
Americans are casting their votes in the November 3 election for those who would represent them at national and local levels. The stakes are especially high for the offices of the President, Senators, and the House of Representatives. While this is taking place, I’ve been reflecting on the importance of the relations between the United…
As America crawls toward the November 3 General Election, there is plenty of speculation, including prognostication, about who former vice-president and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden will pick as his running mate. First, some context. Perhaps you are not a political junkie, you are just a layperson or an average Joe and may be wondering why…