News | Culture & Media Trump Signs Executive Order to Defund PBS and NPR This escalation of his dangerous assault on public media could shutter hundreds of local stations across the country. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams May 2, 2025 Truthout
Interview | Culture & Media Nobel Laureate Warns Trump Is Following Duterte Model to Crack Down on Press Hold the line and don’t give up your rights; what rights you lose today you will not get back, says Maria Ressa. By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh , DemocracyNow! April 24, 2025 Truthout
Op-Ed | Culture & Media Kristi Noem Turns Cruelty Into Content for Her DHS Deportation Ads Noem, wearing a $50,000 watch in her ICE cosplay videos, encapsulates the aesthetic cruelty of the Trump regime. By Schuyler Mitchell , Truthout April 22, 2025 Truthout
Interview | Culture & Media Israel Kills Gaza Photographer Day After Cannes Film Fest Selects Doc About Her Fatma Hassona, subject of the upcoming film “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” was killed with her family Wednesday. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 18, 2025 Truthout
Interview | Culture & Media History of Hollywood Red Scare Offers Insight Into Trump’s Free Speech Attacks The book “Policing Show Business” shows how Trump’s attacks on “radical leftists” are like a sequel to the Red Scare. By Ed Rampell , Truthout April 8, 2025 Truthout
Interview | Culture & Media Let’s Be Politically Promiscuous “Our movements are pretty much just made of our relationships,” says author and activist Dean Spade. By Kelly Hayes , Truthout April 3, 2025 Truthout
Interview | Culture & Media New Film Follows Mahmoud Khalil and Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests “The Encampments” offers a view inside the wave of protests and repression that swept across universities in 2024. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! March 29, 2025 Truthout
Interview | Culture & Media Macklemore: “Collective Liberation Is the Only Solution” The hip-hop stars speaks about “The Encampments,” his new documentary on last year’s student protests for Palestine. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! March 28, 2025 Truthout
Interview | Culture & Media Trump Fuels the Right-Wing Effort to Silence Journalists, Protect the Powerful Trump’s remarks in 2016 sparked a movement of lawyers devoted to suing and threatening news outlets, says David Enrich. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! March 20, 2025 Truthout
News | Culture & Media Trump Threatens Media, Opponents With Legal Action in DOJ Speech In his speech to the Department of Justice, Trump baselessly accused the media of “illegal” behavior. By Zane McNeill , Truthout March 17, 2025 Truthout