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  • Media Polarization and Finding the Truth in Our Politics

    Can we put on something less biased?” grumbled my grandfather as the evening news began to play on the TV. At first I did not understand what he meant. The MSNBC Nightly News had always seemed universal to me, its theme song and anchors’ voices in­grained in my idea of America for as long as…

  • An Appeal from the People of Homs, Syria

    Obituaries of fallen Syrians in Homs.   On Tuesday, two Syrian activists working closely with those in the Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) and a Syrian-American student from the besieged city of Homs riveted a crowd of seventy five people for one hour through a three-way video call. Skirting severe media restrictions in the country,…