Misinformation, Media and Social Media

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (420+ words) The Declaration asserted that our rights are inherent to us as human beings. Government exists to protect those rights and derives its legitimate authority from the consent of the governed.[Text Wrapping Break][Text Wrapping Break]In other words, political…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (998+ words) Advanced Media Search > I was recently reminded of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s observation that people demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought they seldom use. This is provocative, particularly in a democratic society where freedom of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1743+ words) Catherine Rowett, British academic and former Member of the European Parliament, argues democracy survives on lies. Drawing parallels between Plato's Republic, where a noble lie binds society together, Rowett traces this same fiction through modern democratic myths: equal votes and…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (346+ words) Bullshit may be easy to dismiss, but from politics and gambling to advertising and public relations, it can obscure truth, shape debate and carry serious consequences. Bullshit is not just harmless fun – it has serious consequences for our lives. If…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (31+ words) Stop representing all women without understanding When people sitting in the West, or living inside a particular bubble of …...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (374+ words) Behavior جريدة القدس Mon 24 Aug 2026 11:33 am - Jerusalem Time With the exception of a minority that thrives and feeds on the perpetuation of the status quo, the absence of institutions, the ossification of democratic wheels, and the decline of the Palestinian…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1246+ words) And that's why we have to talk about Natalie. We must begin the process of making our political rivals not just more legible but human in a way we can also recognize in ourselves. Chapter 1 (pp. 4–7) from The Reconstruction Papers....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (808+ words) Democracy is complex. It thrives on disagreement, debate, and passionate arguments about a nation’s direction and the values guiding us. But what happens when the foundation of that debate — truth itself — becomes optional? When politicians can lie without consequence and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (534+ words) By David J. Butler Every political system operates according to its own sense of time. American democracy was built to move deliberately. Modern technology expects it to move instantly. That tension may be one of the defining political challenges of our…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (172+ words) Britain offers another example. Brexit demonstrated that a referendum could bypass much of the traditional party-mediated political process and produce a political shock that Parliament struggled to manage. Hungary illustrates a more direct form of democratic erosion. Viktor Orbán and…...