Blog

    UAW Ballot Results

    A left slate won a narrow victory. Here’s how the regional vote mapped out.

    The OG Fake News

    Long before disinformation became a moral panic, respectable media outlets like the New York Times trafficked in false information that led to decades of war in Iraq.

      Issue 50: Dossier

      All the fighting words you missed the first time around.

      Laughing at the Void

      British political comedy of the 1990s and 2000s satirized a low-stakes world of media management and spin. What happened when it tackled the tragedy and atrocity of the war in Iraq?

      George Michael Was Our Marvin

      Despite pop cultural nostalgia for the protest songs of the ’60s, the march to war in Iraq seemed not to interest musicians — with one glorious exception.

      Can the UAW Rise Again?

      Despite the ravages of deindustrialization, the United Auto Workers remains the most important American industrial union. Members recently elected a new leadership promising democracy, militancy, and an end to corruption. But change isn’t coming easy to the UAW.