In September 2008 in one of its rare cover stories on politics @rollingstone.com ran a Sean Wilentz feature on how radicals had hijacked the GOP. Seventeen years later the Republican shipwreck is washing up on shores across the globe.

Making America Great Again is actually Making Canada Greater. From Yale News.

There’s nothing anyone can do about the decadence of the Republican Party but Democrats like @blumenthal.senate.gov must do a whole lot more than just say the right things. If they don’t actually do more, they too will be viewed as complicit.

. @fotoole.bsky.social in the NYRB in 2021 on why the US lost the war in Afghanistan. Nation-building failed because of their own democracy’s failures - now in full view.

As the US media falters in its coverage of Trump’s imminent take-over, a reminder of how the NYT misread Hitler on 31 January 1933 (from Patrick Cockburn’s biography of his father Claud, Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied, 2024, Verso).

The text (below right) from this 4 October 1982 issue of TIME reveals an Israeli society (and press) that had been profoundly torn after Sabra and Shatila. 42 years later it is important to constantly remind ourselves that not all Israelis subscribe to Netanyahu’s genocidal delirium.

Approaching the half way point of IMME's pilot campaign on News Literacy for secondary schools we're finding students more savvy than expected on disinformation, more conscious of the merits of good journalism but frustrated by the state of the global information ecosystem. We are heartened by.../2