Culture & Media

The hearings were broadcast by every major news channel, but for something like this, only one would do: Fox.

When access to quality information is willfully or unintentionally obstructed, democracy itself is degraded.

Before the Reagan presidency, it was possible for any American student with academic competence to attend college and graduate without debt.

Bill Moyers, July 21, 1965. (Photo: Yoichi Okamoto / Wikimedia)

I underwent a fundamental change in who I am the day my first child was born almost 16 years ago.

Most Americans today consider happiness not only something that would be nice to have but something we ought to have.

Racism today has been both reconfigured and made invisible with regard to its real victims.

It's obvious that if you repeat something often enough, in an authoritative voice, listeners will begin to believe what you say. That’s the theory behind both advertising and …

Among things that TV did indeed change, Calvino suggests, is the way we view our leaders.