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The president was feted by King Charles III with the sort of pageantry he covets, signed a technology deal and steered clear of big disagreements with Prime Minister Keir Starmer. [...]
The president’s suggestion that broadcasters should lose their licenses because of criticism of him indicated that his assault on critics’ language is driven in part by personal animus. [...]
The Federal Communications Commission gives out licenses to TV stations to broadcast over radio frequencies and approves major telecom and media deals. [...]
Over more than two decades in TV, the comedian has gone from a challenger of politically correct discourse to a frequent antagonist of the right. [...]
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the president’s pledges to guarantee free speech have been replaced by efforts to suppress — and even criminalize — what their critics have to say. [...]
Trump has created a crisis for U.S. agriculture with his Cold War weaponization of foreign trade with China and Russia, for manufacturing as a result of his steel and aluminum [...]
Drawing from sources as audacious as Bernie Sanders, to the savvy street-smarts of a New York City film production team, Mamdani has given voice to a new generation and forever [...]
Most Londoners had half-forgotten about Trump’s state visit until Air Force One touched down. The capital was that distracted by the Mandelson scandal, Cabinet reshuffles, Tory defections, and brutish Tommy [...]
My two journalistic encounters with Robert Redford both involved trout streams and internationally known professors of literature at the University of Chicago. In the fall of 1995, I got word [...]
The Trump/MAGA/White Supremacist administration is ordering the removal of information and depictions of the era of slavery in the United States. One of the most emblematic images of enslavement is [...]