If you scroll through the news today, it’s easy to feel like every health headline is expertly designed to scare you. Whether it’s because journalists are playing a game of telephone by lazily regurgitating exaggerated press releases without consulting the actual studies they report on, deliberately oversimplifying or distorting findings, or even politicizing the issues—we’re very often not getting an …
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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (L), accompanied by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine (R), speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in June in Arlington, Va. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department …
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It’s not hard to imagine why documentarian Laura Poitras spent 20 years trying to convince Seymour Hersh to make a film about his life. The 88-year-old Pulitzer-winning journalist has an impressive résumé. It was Hersh who broke the story, in 1969, of the horrific US army massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, invigorating the US anti-war movement; 35 years …
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The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America will continue as Senate Republicans strive to prevent Democrats from passing even the most popular measures under Biden’s presidency. While prices skyrocket across the country and our rights are put …
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