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Since the agency’s inception, FCC policies have undermined the 14th Amendment rights of Black people and Black communities.
Rated true: The internet’s oldest dedicated fact-checking organization officially has a union.
Coverage of the All-Star Game’s return to Atlanta fails to mention a voter suppression law that prompted the game’s leaving in 2021.
There are multiple contexts from which to cover ICE. Many communities have weathered the fallout of raids and surveillance tactics.
Regardless of reason, uncritical food writing shores up existing power structures, and fails to serve the consumers and workers who stand to be hurt by them.
Inserted between the pages of the Texas Observer’ s Nov./Dec. edition, mailed to readers two months late, was a letter explaining that delivery had been delayed to put together a special, ...
A majority of eligible staffers support union representation. They're organizing around greater transparency, pay equity, and ...
A Jan. 2020 protest against the opening of a new ICE detention facility in Arleta, Los Angeles. Get The Objective in your inbox every week. I understand why journalists rely on the protest paradigm to ...
On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They ...
Supreme Court photo via Daniel Huizinga on Flickr. Screenshots from the Family Research Council’s amicus brief in U.S. v. Skrmetti. New York Times stories were cited 29 times in amicus briefs ...
Discussing cultural appreciation and appropriation is also about broader questions of who can get a platform to share food — and who profits.
Colleen Grablick and Abigail Higgins, two of the D.C. newsroom’s six co-founders, on building a worker-led newsroom cooperative, filling coverage gaps, and D.C. pride. The logo of The 51st overlaid ...