The World Cup is well underway, and Laurent Dubois, author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France, is following the tournament on his Soccer Politics blog. In this …
Read More >Mark Paul, co-author, with Joe Mathews, of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It, responds to California’s state primary election on Tuesday. This post also …
Read More >In this guest post, W. Joseph Campbell challenges a longstanding myth surrounding the New York Times and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Campbell’s book, Getting it Wrong: Ten of the …
Read More >On Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama hosted 500 chefs from all over the country on the White House lawn for the Chefs Move to Schools program, part of her larger campaign to …
Read More >In this guest post, W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, shows how media-driven myths can take on lives of their own …
Read More >Arizona’s new immigration law, which allows police to stop people they suspect to be in the US illegally and requires immigrants to carry documentation with them, has stirred up controversy and widespread …
Read More >Budget crises, failing schools, unemployment—it’s easy to point out California’s problems, but harder to pinpoint what exactly is wrong, how it happened, and what can be done to fix it. With state …
Read More >Why do media-driven myths matter, and why is it important to set the record straight? In this guest post, W. Joseph Campbell explains. In the next weeks we’ll have several guest posts …
Read More >When Europe is mentioned in the news lately, it’s often about economic crisis or volcanic ash. Even with its current challenges, Steven Hill, author of Europe’s Promise, finds that Europe’s example offers …
Read More >Bryant Simon, author of Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks, discusses the “Coffee Party” movement and argues for a return to the coffeehouse as a place for civic debate …
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