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Corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism.

This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us.

Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”

While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnesty’s report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isn’t.

When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the country’s national newspapers, it’s a conflict writ large as can or should be.

A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called “exceptional in every sense of the term.”

Legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors—but how does it affect states, communities, people?

If we're to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump's agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration.

We talk about what just happened, and corporate media’s role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas.

News media start with the premise of immigration itself as a “crisis,” with the only debate around how to "stem" or "control" it.